Mindfulness | Dyana Wells

The Five Elements

by briant | Oct 12, 2023 | Five Element Theory, Mindfulness, Psychology, The Elements

A modern reflection on the five elements of earth, water, fire, air and space. In Tibetan Buddhism the elements are represented by awakened goddesses, manifesting as the different aspects of a fully awakened mind; stability, clarity, discrimination, all accomplishing...

Alchemy for the modern world

by briant | Oct 12, 2023 | Buddhist Psychology, Mindfulness, Psychology

Connection, identity and becoming alive. I am beginning this discussion from the understanding that all experience is mental. This is mainstream science. Experience is a result of interaction between the world-in-itself which is beyond my reach, my senses, my brain...

Words, Death and Staying Alive

by Dyana Wells | Apr 16, 2023 | Mindfulness, Psychology, Writing

Sailing is like writing. It allows me to pause. Facing into the wind is like facing the page on the screen. Extraneous story lines, which would twist me this way and that, often criss-crossing in contradictory ways, become irrelevant. I empty myself to welcome in...

Why We Need Angels

by Dyana Wells | Apr 16, 2023 | Mindfulness, Psychology, Writing

We all create hypotheses and theories about life which we then test. If a hypothesis proves useful and make good sense of our experience, well then we adopt it as real. A hypothesis that leads to poor life outcomes and predictions is discarded. This is the way of...

Mindfulness and the Prefrontal Cortex

by Dyana Wells | Oct 10, 2019 | Buddhist Psychology, Integration, Meditation, Mindfulness, Psychology

A lot of us have heard about mindfulness and its possible benefits. Recently I have learned a few interesting things about the brain that have made the benefits of mindfulness meditation even clearer to me. Meditation produces a thickening of the prefrontal cortex –...

Introducing Kum Nye – Moving Meditation

by Dyana Wells | Oct 3, 2019 | Anatomy & Physiology, Integration, Kum Nye, Meditation, Mindfulness

I have been a student of Kum Nye for over thirty years, and I still love the simplicity and effectiveness of this practice. It comes from Tibet and was brought to the west by Tarthang Tulku in the 1970s. It has never become widely popular, which is a mystery to me,...