What Is Secular Mindfulness?

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There's a lot of discussion in the Buddhism slash meditation slash mindfulness world about what is secular mindfulness. Is it a helpful practice or is it having been stripped of its other Buddhist roots primarily ethics and view, right? Is it the right thing to do or not? And I think these are really interesting discussions that I don't know that there's right answers to but I think we're going to continue to face as we enter a more globalized and interconnected world.

Chelsey Luger is a writer and wellness advocate originally from North Dakota, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She got her undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College, concentrating on comparative histories of global Indigenous cultures, and later earned an M.S. in Digital Media at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is the co-founder of Well For Culture. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Huffington Post, Yes! Magazine, and other outlets.

Thosh Collins is a photographer, board member for the Native Wellness Institute, and co-founder of Well For Culture. He is On Akimel O'odham, Seneca-Cayuga, and Osage, born and raised on the Salt River Reservation. He serves on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Land Board, and remains politically and culturally active within his community.

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Their book, The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well
Beginning everything with gratitude is a key to our wellness journey
Accepting the challenges and finding balance
Chelsea's story of the dust storm and teaching resilience
Focusing on solution based thinking for indigenous cultures to heal and thrive
Expanding the common narrative of indigenous cultures to show resilience rather than brokenness
Understanding the harm of cultural appropriation
Keeping their cultural and spiritual practices private and sacred
The seven circles include our connections to food, sleep, movement, ceremony, sacred space, community, and land.
How the symbol of the medicine wheel represents interconnectedness of mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional
Finding ways to integrate the circles of wellness
Connecting to land is about remembering that we are not separate from nature
Noticing and acknowledging the natural elements of this earth
Adapting a subsistence world view
How connecting emotion to day to day rituals creates the element of ceremony