It does provide a greater basket for tenderly holding and intimately knowing our suffering in any and all circumstances, and that, it turns out, is transformative, and can make all the difference betw...
In all the meditative traditions of the world, visualizations and imagery are used to invoke particular qualities of mind and heart.
If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.
If we are not careful, it is all too easy to fall into becoming more of a human doing than a human being, and forget who is doing all the doing, and why.
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.
Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complementary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least as wonderful and as powerful, if not more so, than thinking.
Attention leads to connection, connection to regulation, regulation to order, and order to ease (as opposed to dis-ease), or, more colloquially, to health.
At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient... only the universe rearranging itself.
Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the in...
Discernment
Cannot be imposed, legislated, or decreed. They can only be cultivated, and
Are using the word practice here in a special way. It does not mean a rehearsal or a perfecting of some skill so that we can put it to use at some other time. In the meditative context, practice means...
[W]hat seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story is really going on. [...] [F]or the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle fo...
When you practice mindfulness, the first thing you are likely to notice is how mindless you can be. Let’s say you decide to focus on the feeling of the breath moving in and out of the body. It is happ...
To be patient is simply to be completely open to each moment, accepting it in its fullness, knowing that, like the butterfly, things can only unfold in their own time.
The whole point of this book, and of MBSR, is that there is a lot that you can do to gently, lovingly, and firmly—through non-striving and non-doing, coupled with doing when taking action with awarene...
Remember, now is the only time you have for anything. You have to accept yourself as you are before you can really change. Your choosing to do so becomes an act of self-compassion and intelligence. Wh...
Por el mismo motivo, cada vez que nos ensimismamos, no nos damos cuenta de las cosas o nos sentimos ansiosos, ejercitamos y reforzamos la capacidad de ensimismarnos, de tornarnos inconscientes y de es...
Perhaps over time we can adjust our default setting to one of greater mindfulness rather than of mindlessness and being lost in thought. As