Diana Winston and her MAP to mindfulness

Today's guest is Diana Winston, author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness, and the co-author of Fully Present, the Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness.



She has taught mindfulness for health and well-being since 1993 in a variety of settings including the medical and mental health field, and in universities, businesses, non-profits, and schools.



At UCLA, where she is the Director of Mindfulness Education at MARC, she developed the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) curriculum and the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation (TMF), which trains mindfulness teachers worldwide. She is also a founder of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.



Her work has been mentioned in the New York Times, O Magazine, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Women’s Health, and in a variety of magazines, books, and journals. The LA Times has even called her “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness.”



She has been practising mindfulness since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma (Myanmar).



Learn more at www.dianawinston.com

LYRICS to A Hose Through Which Love Flows:

Am I validated feelings

Am I compassion incarnate

Or the darkest of the answers

Resigned to his fate



Yes am I doomed to live forever

With the free will that I chose

Or am I a hose

Through which love flows



I'm an accumulation of consciousness

A wave before the sand

An amalgamation of aspects

At the limit of the land



I'm growing and collecting

Where attention goes

And I'm a hose

Through which love flows



I'm chaos in the making

And robust rigidity

Desperately adding layers

Trying to fashion identity



I'm refractions of the light   

An animal that knows

And I'm a hose

Through which love flows



I'm a bundle of emotions

Each with their own name

Pretending individualism

All desperate for a frame



I'm the wheel of awareness

A whisper dressed in clothes

And I'm a hose

Through which love flows



I'm a preacher proud to stand up

A prosecutor who'll fall

A politician in the alley

Answering mother nature's call



I'm integrating hemispheres

The poetry and the prose

And I'm a hose

Through which love flows



I'm the left side giving narration

And the right side reaching out

A problem-solving algorithm

Wants to know what it's about



I'm the observer and the object

The audience and the show

And I'm a hose

Through which love flows



I'm a hose through which love flows