{"id":24073,"date":"2010-10-12T14:43:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T21:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/?p=24073"},"modified":"2010-10-12T14:43:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T21:43:27","slug":"stillness-buddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/12\/stillness-buddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stillness Buddy – Software for Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.stillnessbuddy.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I recently started sitting with a sangha<\/a> in Victoria. It is a wonderful experience and brings me great joy, to find like-minded people to practice with.<\/p>\n

The sangha follows the tradition of well known Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh<\/a>. The other day, while reading up about the community he founded<\/a>, I stumbled on a link to some software he endorses called Stillness Buddy<\/a>. I installed the free trial and am really loving the experience.<\/p>\n

I am usually pretty skeptical when I hear mention of meditation software; it is not something that needs software, indeed needs anything other than discipline, to practice. This is slightly different.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Once installed, there are 4 simple settings: start and finish time of work day, lunch break time, spacing and duration of Moments of Stillness an Mindfulness Pauses. Once you have set those values, that’s it – the software runs in the background, and at the appointed times pops up a small window, accompanied by a very pleasant sound, which urgese you to take a moment and consider your breathing, or some other mindfulness enhancing step. The “Moments” can be of any duration you choose – I have set mine to the suggested initial values of 30 second breaks every 30 minutes. Similarly, I have the longer Pauses set to 2 minute breaks every hour and a half.<\/p>\n

What a difference it makes. It is far to easy for me to get absorbed, either in a single task or flitting between a dozen tasks, and on top of that, it does feel like sitting at a computer can actually effect your regular breathing<\/a>. This simple app, which I would say was perfectly appropriate for non-meditators and non-Buddhists, goes a long way to the simple act of bring me back into my body and connecting with my breathing, a small but major part of being mindful. I hope you find it helpful too. – SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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