Guest Blog Posting on Everyday Mindfulness: Mindfulness Lessons from the Martial Arts

I’ve had the privilege of writing a guest blog posting on Everyday Mindfulness entitled, “Responding Not Reacting: Mindfulness Lessons From The Martial Arts.”   In it I describe some lessons I have learned about responding rather than reacting from my training in martial arts over the years.   In particular I thought it would be interesting to explore how an action can be a response even when it is immediate, in light of the fact that I often hear it said that responding is about pausing before taking action.

There are some interesting parallels between martial arts training and technology.   Sometimes I think that martial arts is to meditation as technology is to science.   Perhaps that’s an article for another day…