Insight Dialogue - Guidelines for Kinder, more Mindful way of Relating

Pause

Relax

Open

Trust Emergence

Listen Deeply

Speak the Truth

     "These 6 instructions provide the scaffolding for Insight Dialogue. … essential support for awakening amid the rich challenges of interpersonal encounter. Each guideline calls forth different qualities, and all of them are complementary. In brief,  

Pause calls forth mindfulness; 

Relax, tranquility and acceptance; 

Open, relational availability and spaciousness; 

Trust Emergence, flexibility and letting go; 

Listen Deeply, receptivity and attunement; and 

Speak the Truth, integrity and care."

       Kramer G. “Insight dialogue. The interpersonal path to freedom.” Shambhala, Boston, 2007. 

Insight Dialogue retreats: http://metta.org/insight-dialogue-3/

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Pause, Relax, Momentum, Life Narrative, Habit of Tensions

     “When we Pause, we step out of reaction and into the moment; when we Relax, we meet thoughts and feelings with acceptance. Accepting is to the mind what relaxing is to the body. It is how the mind relaxes. Having awakened to this moment’s experience, we rest in a quality of awareness that is accepting, yielding, nonresistive, and available. 
     Such acceptance is an inherent quality of mindfulness; it has only been obscured by the habit of tensions. Awareness that is relaxed and stable can know the present moment intimately, neither grasping nor backing away.”

       Kramer G. “Insight dialogue. The interpersonal path to freedom.” Shambhala, Boston, 2007.