Deepen Your Relationships with Mindfulness
How can we deepen our relationships? Andrea Miller, editor of Right Here with You, discusses how mindfulness can help us open our hearts, strengthen communication, increase intimacy, and allow us to be more fully present with each other.
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Andrea Miller
Andrea Miller is the editor of the book we will be discussing, Right Here With You: Mindfulness for Connection, Communication & Deepening Our Relationships. Andrea Miller is also the editor of Lion’s Roar magazine and the author of Awakening My Heart: Essays, Article’s, and Interviews on the Buddhist Life and the picture books The Day the Buddha Woke Up and My First Book of Canadian Birds. She serves on the editorial board of the interreligious journal CrossCurrents.
WEBSITE: lionsroar.com/author/andrea-miller
SOCIAL MEDIA: LIONS ROAR BUDDHISM
THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: The conversation with Andrea Miller, editor of the book Right Here With You: Mindfulness for Connection & Deepening Our Relationships focused on how we can deepen our relationships through mindfulness. We connect by being present to the other person, to listen without criticism or judgment and importantly. how to manage disappointment. I appreciated the examples that Andrea shared from her own life that are relatable, and I take encouragement from the practices that bring us back into present awareness. The practice of noticing the breath-- inhale and notice, exhale and notice—brings us back into oneness.
DR TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: I really enjoyed speaking to someone knowledgeable in Buddhist teachings. It enabled us to discuss topics from both the Buddhist and Yoga perspectives. Our discussion about several of the essays in the book, Right Here With You, edited by Andrea Miller, will be so helpful to listeners, showing how we can bring more mindfulness into our relationships. Our conversation ranged from the importance of being present which Thich Nhat Hahn wrote about, to the necessity of starting with our relationship with ourselves, to our discussion of how non-attachment works in relationships. The few exercises that Andrea reviewed from the book will give listeners some practical ways to begin to focus on mindfulness.