Diana Winston - The Spectrum of Awareness
UCLA MARC meditation teacher Diana Winston talks about the spectrum of awareness on The FitMind Podcast episode 36.
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Episode Overview
Diana Winston of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center is one of the most popular meditation teachers in the U.S. and has decades of experience practicing and teaching.
In this episode, we discuss how Diana became a nun in Burma and then realized her meditation practice needed a big change, the concept of "enlightenment" and how it can be harmful, deliberate mindfulness vs. natural awareness, personalizing your meditation practice, and the infusion of meditation into the modern world.
Diana also gives a powerful guided meditation, leading listeners along the full spectrum of awareness from focused attention to natural awareness.
Hope you enjoy!
P.S. — If you’re serious about starting or deepening your meditation practice, check out the FitMind meditation app.
Diana Winston Bio
Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She wrote The Little Book of Being and co-authored Fully Present, the Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness with Susan Smalley, PhD.
Diana has practiced mindfulness for over three decades, including spending a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma, and she has taught meditation for over two decades in hospitals, universities, corporations, non-profits, and schools throughout the U.S. and Asia. She's been called "one of the nation's best-known teachers of mindfulness" by the LA Times.
Diana is also a founding board member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and a member of the Teacher's Council at the famous Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California where she was trained to teach by Jack Kornfield. She's been mention in the New York Times, O Magazine, Newsweek, Women's Health, and a variety of other publications. You can learn more about Diana on her website.