{"id":210,"date":"2011-01-01T09:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T09:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mindfulnessmatters\/2011\/01\/happy-new-instant-happy-new-year.html"},"modified":"2011-01-01T09:43:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T09:43:14","slug":"happy-new-instant-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mindfulnessmatters\/2011\/01\/happy-new-instant-happy-new-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Instant; Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mindfulnessmatters\/BS16001.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BS16001.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/96\/import\/assets_c\/2011\/01\/BS16001-thumb-350x350-20620.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Happy New Year! One of the greatest cliches in the vernacular and an important one at that. One of my friends* shared the alternate term, &#8220;Happy New Instant&#8221; and I really dig that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On the one hand, the transition to the new year is special and reflects a physical reality &#8212; the earth has completed its rotation around the sun. On the other hand it&#8217;s a social construction; really just a day like any other day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Each day is comprised of countless instants (you could count them, I suppose, but that wouldn&#8217;t be the point!). Each of the instants can be a happy one when we come to it with mindfulness.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Time is so interesting. It has a reality and it also a fiction. It seems to move in only one direction physicists tell us (why is that?). Yet, psychologically, each moment has an equivalence until we make demarkations, separations, and boundaries. When we meditate we can feel the concept of time unravel into the seamless fabric of now. We come into and out of time just as we come into and out of form. There is a great freedom in loosening our grip on time &#8212; the freedom to experience each instant as a Happy New Year!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I think the Buddha would agree. And as we enjoy our Happy New Instants in the New Year we can build our community of interconnectedness and make the world a better place in 2011.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>* Thanks to Noah for &#8220;Happy New Instant&#8221; Check out his badass web work at <a href=\"http:\/\/modernriot.com\/\">Modern Riot<\/a>. Modern Riot is &nbsp;a full service new media design, development and consulting firm.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! One of the greatest cliches in the vernacular and an important one at that. One of my friends* shared the alternate term, &#8220;Happy New Instant&#8221; and I really dig that.&nbsp; On the one hand, the transition to the new year is special and reflects a physical reality &#8212; the earth has completed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,8,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddha-101","category-metaphors-for-mindfulness","category-mindful-living","category-mindfulnesss","category-spider-mind-world-of-interconnections"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy New Instant; Happy New Year - Mindfulness Matters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mindfulnessmatters\/2011\/01\/happy-new-instant-happy-new-year.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy New Instant; Happy New Year - Mindfulness Matters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Happy New Year! 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Dr. Kozak's ability to translate ancient healing traditions into pragmatic applications suitable for modern lifestyles through the use of metaphors have made him a strong voice in healthcare and business. Beginning with a journey to India in the 80\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where he took the Bodhisattva vows from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Arnie Dr. Kozak began his lifelong practice in mindfulness meditation. Intent on finding a way to bring the practical healing attributes of mindfulness he began incorporating these techniques in his private practice. In 2002 Dr. Kozak created Exquisite Mind in Burlington, Vermont as a vehicle that could expand his wisdom to larger audiences beyond individual psychotherapy to professionals and corporations, health care providers, public groups and, most recently with Exquisite Mind Golf, amateur and professional golfers. His award-winning new book, Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness (Wisdom Publications, 2009) is a thoughtful, funny, and inspiring translation of mindfulness practice through the inventive use of metaphor applicable to our daily lives. In addition to his work with Exquisite Mind, Arnie Kozak, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist\u00e2\u20ac\u201dDoctorate has been a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Vermont and is a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry and Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine. He has studied and practiced clinical psychology, meditation, and yoga for more than 25 years. He has studied with several meditation masters, including S. N. Goenka, Larry Rosenberg, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. After receiving his bachelors degree with honors from Tufts University, he was awarded a Presidential Fellowship to get his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University at Buffalo. 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