The Ottawa–Gatineau Journal

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Noticing the effect of thoughts

This article used worry to illustrate the relationship the author saw between thought, emotion and physical experience. Meditation was introduced as a way of observing that relationship more closely.

Water lilies stretching in a line across a perfectly still lake at dusk, with smooth stones in the foreground

The focus was the process of noticing a thought rather than immediately following it. Examples of the bodily experience of worry helped explain the subject, while the surrounding discussion placed it within the centre's interest in awareness and the mind.

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