David Jones has a 30-year career with the United States government. He encountered mindfulness in therapy for his endangered marriage (which had led to anxiety-based depression and dissociative disorder symptoms), and writes about the experience in his blog as well as articles in various publications. He started writing articles about mindfulness for Yahoo Voices under the brand: A Mindful Guy.
Integration After Satori: Struck By the Lightning, Living in the Thunder
By David Jones Enlightenment. Awakening. Kensho. Satori. An opening of the eyes. An epiphany. A burst of insight. That proverbial bolt from the blue. While other faith paths respect and honor the sudden life-changing moment when eyes which were blind can...
What is Beginner’s Mind?
By David Jones Allow me to sing the praises of Beginner's Mind. It has helped me with Religious Deconstruction and has reawakened my curiosity about things I'd learned long ago. It also challenges me to reconsider all the teachings, views, and...
Parenting Mindfully and Discipline
By David Jones How were you disciplined growing up? Spanking with a hand, a stick, or a paddle? Did you memorize the smell of the room corner your nose was stuck in during time out? Was it all yelling and fury? Were you grounded, maybe sent to your room, or to...
12 Points on Establishing Boundaries as a Mindful Parent (and why it’s necessary)
By David Jones So many things are involved in trying to raise strong, healthy children. Some seem really obvious like diet, exercise, and being grateful. But there's a particular social building block we don't want to neglect---boundaries. Healthy boundaries...
Why Meditate?
By David Jones Have you ever wondered what meditation is for? If you ask three people you'll probably end up with eight answers, because like any tool it can be used in many different ways (some more skillful than others). Meditation is used for centering your...
Responding Instead of Reacting: Parenting Mindfully
By David Jones A lot of attention has been paid lately to something called Emotional Intelligence. It has to do with learning about one's emotions and how to handle them. It's like a lot of things in life today: parents weren't taught about it, so they're not equipped...
Mindful Diversity and Constructive Discomfort
By David Jones I used to think diversity had to do with things like skin color, nationality, gender, sexual particulars, or categorized disability. I work for the government, so my view was shaped by their view. Now I wonder. A friend of mine once offered that...
Mindless Eating and Loneliness: Ways to Eat Mindfully
By David Jones I was sitting at my desk working along. The mind gently wanders when your work is repetitive. I had already eaten and my hunger was satisfied. I'll say again: I was absolutely not still hungry. Before I realized it, I had a small container of...
Mindful Parenting, No Matter How Old We (and they) Are
By David Jones One night long ago, one of my sons was sick, and at bedtime he needed a dose of medicine. He hated taking medicine. As I poured the thick purple liquid into a dosage spoon he started edging away. I told him to stop because he needed to...
Artificial Intelligence Just Got Real
By David Jones AI is a main character in some tense and scary films. It led to the rise of the machines in The Terminator. It was the creation which created the Matrix. When two computers weren't allowed to communicate with each other in the film Colossus: The...