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