Mindfulness and Information Profession - Webliography

• Information explosion and chaos, A comment by M S Sridhar on Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity An interview of Ellen Langer (HBR South Asia, Mar  2014, p 62-67)
• The Mindful Librarian: Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship (Chandos Information Professional)  Richard Moniz
• Don’t Overthink It: How Librarians Can Conquer Perfectionism with Mindfulness, hhibner
• The Zen of Listening: Mindful Communication in the Age of Distraction  Rebecca Z Shafir MA CCC
• Insights and Practical Tips on Practicing Mindful Librarianship to Manage Stress Kristen Mastel and Genevieve Innes libres-ejournal.info
• Searching Mindfully: Are Libraries up to the challenge of competing with Google Books? Amrita Dhawan PhD
• A Temporal Model of Mindful Interactions Around New Service Conception Joe Rubleske  [School of Information Studies (iSchool)]
• A Conceptual Model: Designing Public Library Websites for Teens. Robin Naughton [digital]
• How modern information overload can affect the brain YouTube
• Recovering from information overload - Mindfulness at Work

•  SEE ALSO:Multifaith Resource Series - Mindfulness

BUSINESS: The game changer in the global fight for religious freedom, plus weekly faithwise roundup

• BUSINESS: The game changer in the global fight for religious freedom

Weekly roundup:

Changing the World: Inspiring Award-Winning Documentaries 

Four  Myths About Prayer : Myth #1: God Is Up There, I'm Down Here; Myth #2: Pray More To Get A Response; Myth #3: Believe The Most, Get The Most; Myth #4: God Only Hears Christians

Everyday (or 365 Days) HolyBook Reading Charts [e.g., Quran Memorisation Charts; The Qur'an 365 Selections for Daily Reading; Bhagavad Gita: Daily Message; Daily Bible Reading Chart For One Year; Annual Torah Portion Reading Schedule] includes charts/schedule for a few major faiths (i.e., Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Bhai)

Dan Goleman: Author, 'Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence' writes about   What Mindfulness Is -- And Isn't

"Mindfulness" refers to that move where you notice your mind wandered. With mindfulness you monitor whatever goes on within the mind. "Meditation" means the whole class of ways to train attention, mindfulness among them. continue reading  What Mindfulness Is -- And Isn't

Religious liberty vs. civil rights: A balancing act 

Fifa lifts ban on head covers  BBC 

List Is Ending After Seven Years, Aamir Hussain

Canadian Muslims need new narrative Toronto Star 

Muslim Obligations in Promoting Justice in America | Gates of Vienna

How Stephen Harper divides and conquers our many minorities: Siddiqui, Toronto Star : Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is governing more for his Conservative party than for Canada.

Rape Culture and Spiritual Violence: Religion, Testimony and Visions of Healing (Religion and Violence) by Gina Messina-Dysert  ISBN: 1844657884;  Acumen Publishing (March 27, 2014)

Why Newsweek Will No Longer Publish A 'Top 50 Rabbis' List -- Newsweek's 'Top 50 Rabbis'

Listed criteria for the rabbis recognized included:

Are they innovative leaders—communally and/or spiritually?
Are they considered leaders in Judaism in general or their denominations in particular?
How large are their constituencies?
Have they made an impact on Judaism?
Have they made an impact beyond the Jewish community?
Are they known nationally/internationally?
Do they have political/social influence?
Do they have a media presence?

Thanksgiving, Plus : Review of the Week

Thanksgiving

• Smackdown!: Thanksgiving show stuffed with Tag Team action, CANOE
• Black Friday: Why Canada should not copy the U.S. MetroNews Canada
• NFL Picks: The Detroit Lions deserve a happy Thanksgivin, National Post
• Here's your definitive Thanksgiving weekend marathon guide, Entertainment Weekly
• Dozens of US retailers opened on Thanksgiving through Black Friday CTV News
• A Thanksgiving that forgets nobody, Sentinel and Enterprise
• Buddhism and Sikhism - a Thanksgiving Day Reflection by Prof. Amritjit Singh:

This is part of what I wrote this morning to a friend – some of it may interest you.  Happy Thanksgiving,  Amrit 

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Happy Thanksgiving to you and to so many of God's creatures (humans not excluded) that you share your love with.  [Take my reference to God with a grain of salt. I am an agnostic by choice – I don't say "agnostic by faith or conviction" becos that would be a contradiction.] 




BTW, I am one of those agnostics, those Lefties if you like, who as a non-believer, recognizes that billions of humans around the world get their moral sustenance from their distinct faiths and that when the Marxists dismiss all religions as specimens of false consciousness and refuse to engage with faith communities, they make a big mistake.  The Lefties also allow the fanatics within each faith tradition to go unchallenged.  All of us then face the consequences.  




Am reading an interesting book on Buddhism – Pankaj Mishra's An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World.  He argues that Buddhism nudges us in the direction of meditation and mindfulness in order to resolve our individual personal struggles with human suffering (indeed the focus of Buddha's thought and meditations) and has little to say on issues of social justice in larger circles of society and politics.  I have been thinking at the same time of Sikhism, the faith in which I nominally grew up – my Dad was also a skeptic of sorts although not an agnostic.  Sikhism, in contrast, is a project in social engineering – an unending struggle for social justice and for First Amendment rights in their largest connotations.  Meditation at the personal, individual level is not forgotten in Sikhism – but living fully and actively with an awareness of issues that affect family and community is at the heart of the Sikh way of life.  And in some of those ways, I am a Sikh all right.  




That is the burden of my song on Thanksgiving Day (also Hanukah today! - a rare coincidence).  Sorry to insist on making you my captive audience for a few minutes!!

Miscellany:

•  US Sikhs launch smartphone app to report abuse at airports NDTV
• Gap's Ad With Sikh Model Waris Ahluwalia Defaced With Racist Graffiti, Drawing Incredible Response From Company... huffingtonpost.com
• LETTER: Full-time spiritual care practitioner needed at ARHCC
• I Can Only Hope God Has Mercy on Sex-Offending Clergy, by  Diane Weber Bederman, huffingtonpost.ca
• Meditation an effective way to improve performance South China Morning Post
• “Philosophy-to-Go!”: Meditation on a Green Bean Casserole
• Can Mindfulness Meditation Really Reduce Pain and Suffering by 90%
• I meditate on food to curb my rages, says Heston AFL.com.au
• Conservationists connect with faith community The Tribune
• Outreach groups reconsidering approach to dual-faith families, Heritage Florida Jewish News

Big business embraces meditation, Montreal Gazette

BY DONNA NEBENZAHL

Extract:

At Google’s high-tech offices in California’s Silicon Valley, silent “mindful lunches” are on offer, along with a labyrinth for walking meditation. A full-time mindfulness coach has led more than 1,000 employees through Search Inside Yourself training, which includes meditation practice.

At cutting-edge businesses like Google, Facebook and Twitter, meditation is the new caffeine, writes Wired magazine contributing editor Noah Shactman, whose recent feature examined how meditation and mindfulness are thriving in company culture, albeit in an unusual new way. Here, “entrepreneurs and engineers are taking millennia-old traditions and reshaping them to fit the Valley’s goal-oriented, data-driven, largely atheistic culture.” continue reading

Multifaith Resource Series - Mindfulness

Reframing sad thoughts
Mind-based therapy created to fight depression, Daily meditation is used to stop negative thinking, Sep. 8, 2006. ROBIN HARVEY, LIFE WRITER The Toronto Star,

Sandra, a Toronto woman in her early 40s, has a problem with recurrent depression. For four years, she tried "almost every approach there was" to stop it.

"Nothing worked for long," she says. "I'd take medication, they'd say increase the dose, then I'd get worse."

Then she heard of a study at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) run by psychologist Zindel Segal, who was testing a program of therapy that has shown promise in patients who frequently relapse into depression.

Called mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, it was developed to help people with depression and is being tested at CAMH with a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health in the U.S.

Mindfulness is the practice whereby a person is intentionally aware of his or her thoughts and actions in the present moment, non-judgmentally. Largely associated with Buddhism, in which it is called sati, the practice of mindfulness is also advocated by such people as medical researcher and author Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, psychologist Nathaniel Branden and philosopher Ayn Rand. Psychologist Ellen J. ...
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness

Self-correction, by Velveteen Rabbi

Mindfulness and the Present Moment @ Health, contentment and trust.

Media:
Sacred Sounds:

Related phrases: mindfulness relaxation mindfulness of breathing

An audio tour of multifaith meditations. Prayer Finder Beliefnet's library of prayers

Library of Congress Subject Headings (23 books with this title, as of 17 Sept, 2006):
Meditation--Therapeutic use.
Cognitive therapy.
Behavior therapy.
Behavior Therapy--methods.
Meditation--methods.