<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Hi Michael<br class="">Don’t believe everything you read in wikipedia!<br class=""><br class="">On 18 Aug 2019, at 5:56 pm, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Dear Alan,<br class=""><br class="">meditate?<br class="">Ok, I ain't trained.<br class="">Missed it.<br class="">Is it too late?<br class=""><br class="">Looking at meditation in wikipedia it tells me:<br class=""><br class="">"Meditation may be used with the aim of reducing stress, anxiety, depression, and pain, and increasing peace, perception,[7] self-concept, and well-being.[8][9][10][11] Meditation is under research to define its possible health (psychological, neurological, and cardiovascular) and other effects."<br class=""><br class="">Shocked myself with the section "criticism":<br class=""><br class="">"The psychologist Thomas Joiner argues that modern mindfulness meditation has been "corrupted" for commercial gain by self-help celebrities, and suggests that it encourages unhealthy narcissistic and self-obsessed mindsets."<br class=""><br class="">Hope you you all enjoy a lovely Sunday.<br class="">mmp<br class=""><br class="">Am 17.08.2019 um 11:08 schrieb Alan Halford via OSList:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I have a vague and distant memory of seeing/hearing HO saying or being quoted “ The only training you need for OST is to meditate”<br class="">Not sure whether I imagined it, but it was a decisive reason for me to delve into the world of OST<br class="">AND it’s still<br class="">“Issue the invitation, sit in a circle, create an agenda and get to work”<br class="">WHOO HOO<br class="">Alan<br class="">*Alan Halford & Associates*<br class="">*Open Space Technology Aficionados<br class="">Mediation and Conflict Transformation*<br class=""></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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