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Click below for "Living in the Present"
http://www.archive.org/download/THS_121_HappinessThroughLivingInThePresent_500kb_wmv/THS_121_Happiness_Through_Living_In_The_Present.wmv Click below for "Mindfulness Meditation" http://www.archive.org/download/THS_135_HappinessAndMindfulnessMeditation_500kb_wmv/THS_135_Happiness_and_Mindfulness_Mediation.wmv
If the links above don't work for you, go to http://thehappinessshow.com/121140.htm -- click on show #121 "Living in the Present" or show #135 "Mindfulness Meditation"
From the Journal News...
Spirituality Stretches the Mind
By Joy Victory
The Journal News
(Original publication: March 9, 2004)
When spirituality meets medicine
A meditation class held in the White Plains apartment of Paula Caracappa.
Ms. Caracappa is the facilitator of the meditation class.
For 26 years, Paula Caracappa was a personnel director in the retail industry. Now she leads group meditations and teaches other holistic therapies in White Plains.
For her, meditation is more than a way to clear the mind and restore peace; it's also a way to explore spirituality. "We're just so time-pressed to make any kind of spiritual connection in the midst of all this busyness," Caracappa says. "For me, one of the things that is necessary is stillness. I can't receive a message until I'm still."
Caracappa says that many people who practice regular meditation eventually find ways to accept the imperfect world around them. "Acceptance is a big, big benefit," she says. "The whole issue of healing - finding acceptance and peace - that's a connection to the spiritual world."
One of her clients, Richard Walker, who is retired from the military and lives in White Plains, uses meditation to relax and calm his "active mind." "I enjoy the spiritual part of life. (Meditation) enhances spirituality because it clears out the unnecessary stuff that's in the way," he says. "I try to go into a place of complete relaxation. It allows that stuff to come in." While Walker doesn't belong to any organized religion, he says he believes in a higher power and tries to live his life spiritually. But just what that means is hard for Walker to define. "I seek my own thing," he says.
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