Mindfulness in the Museum: Lessons from a Meditation Guide
b'\\u201cMindfulness, for me, enables me to experience an art museum as if I\\u2019m listening to music. To just listen, attend to how all these objects make me feel.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nHow can mindfulness change our experience of art? Experienced meditation teacher and guide Tracy Cochran sees museums as perfect places to practice the lessons of mindfulness. From focusing on how an artwork impacts the feelings in her body to using the meditation techniques of \\u201cbeginner\\u2019s mind\\u201d or \\u201cdon\\u2019t know mind\\u201d to understand a work of art in a new way, Cochran sees many opportunities for applying mindfulness in the museum. \\n\\n\\n\\nIn this episode, hosted by Getty Museum educator Lilit Sadoyan, Cochran shares her understanding of mindfulness and its role in art spaces as well as some techniques for practicing mindfulness in museums. Cochran teaches mindfulness meditation and mindful writing in the greater New York area at institutions such as the Rubin Museum of Art, New York Insight Meditation Center, and numerous schools, libraries, and corporations. She is also the editorial director of Parabola magazine.\\n\\n\\n\\nFor images, transcripts, and more, visit https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/mindfulness-in-the-museum-lessons-from-a-meditation-guide/ or http://www.getty.edu/podcasts\\n\\n\\n\\nTo learn more about Tracy Cochran, visit https://tracycochran.org/'