Mindfulness

The evidence of your unenlightment is always in the past. Also in: Nondual, Mindfulness.
Galling though it is at first, we need to stay in close contact with what we'd like to reject. Also in: Mindfulness, Daoism.
Stay present, let go of the story, focus on the body, breathe. Also in: Mindfulness.
Stop rehashing. Stop rehearsing. Just relax. Also in: Mindfulness.
How you treat yourself is how you treat others, and vice versa. Also in: Human, Mindfulness.
Instead of "don't think about pink elephants", try "only think about pink elephants forever!" Also in: Mindfulness, Self, Waking-up.
Stop and realise you are the freedom you're searching for. Also in: Buddhism, Self, Mindfulness.
Transcend difficulties through deep surrender. Also in: Mindfulness, Experience.
Transcend difficulties through deep surrender. Also in: Mindfulness, Experience.
We habitually resist unpleasant experiences, which sustains and prolongs them. Also in: Mindfulness, Experience, Opposites.
This current feeling is not solid or permanent. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
Tend patiently to your mind, like a gardener to their garden. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Take the cushion everywhere. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
It's only when you think about it that it hurts. Also in: Human, Mindfulness, Nondual.
Sit still and feel the discomfort. Also in: Acceptance, Mindfulness.
Break the mind to body to mind negative loop. Also in: Human, Mindfulness.
Ask yourself: "what would be enough?" Also in: Acceptance, Human, Mindfulness.
Desires only appear to contain imperatives. Also in: Waking-up, Mindfulness, Slowness.
A willingness to begin again is the key to freedom. Also in: Waking-up, Mindfulness.
See more clearly that things are (actually) fuzzy. Also in: Love, Mindfulness.
Respond to discomfort from a place of stillness. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Thoughts arise without your permission. Also in: Self, Experience, Mindfulness.
The mind interprets every experience almost instantly. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
Your identity can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Also in: Human, Mindfulness.
Practice grows the amount of life you can hold with becoming upset, without it dominating you. Also in: Buddhism, Slowness, Mindfulness.
Investigate the snake to see the reality of the rope. Also in: Mindfulness.
Notice how giving experience a warm welcome makes you feel about yourself. Also in: Acceptance, Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Become viscerally intimate with the truth. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Mindfulness.
The story includes the feeling tone includes the raw data of experience. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Self-forgiveness mitigates negative affect, turns avoid into approach. Also in: Human, Acceptance, Mindfulness.
Recognise your shame triggers. Also in: Human, Mindfulness.
Notice how often you default to the (modern, convenient) comfort. Also in: Human, Mindfulness.
Take three long slow breaths. Also in: Mindfulness.
Alternate three chair exercise: the (Inner) Critic, the Coach, the Compassionate Observer. Also in: Mindfulness, Self, Acceptance.
Just noticing that we were distracted, again and again: that is the practice, that is meditation. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Experience.
Don't do anything except be open to the possibility of being more relaxed. Also in: Daoism, Mindfulness.
When meditating, be very gentle with your concentration. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Meditation is about resting. Not-doing, relaxing, refreshing, recharging. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Slowness.
What will you say no to, even thought it's worth doing? Also in: Human, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
There's no need to tie your self-worth to your To Do list. Also in: Human, Waking-up, Mindfulness.
There's no need to start the day with productivity debt. Also in: Human, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
Watch for the change from river (flow of impermanence) to eddy (contraction, resistance). Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
The task of the meditator is to care for bad feelings, like an older sibling. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
The problem is the reactivity, triggered by the underlying feeling tone, creating a compelling narrative. Also in: Buddhism, Slowness, Mindfulness.
Listen to others' needs, know your limitations, then act compassionately. Also in: Buddhism, Human, Mindfulness.
Learn to sense the feeling tone (vedana) before you become entangled and start to spiral. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Slowness.
Don't recall, don't imagine, don't think, don't examine, don't control. Rest. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Experience.
Being distracted is not a problem but staying distracted is. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Short moments, many times. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Nature shows us concrete versions of impermanence and interdependence. Also in: Mindfulness, Nondual, Experience.
Being outdoors, in nature, wakes up our physical senses. Also in: Mindfulness, Human, Experience.
Reaction to thought is also another thought. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Notice what you map to your sense of self. For example: anxiety vs indigestion. Also in: Self, Mindfulness.
Emotions and feelings like anger and anxiety are information, “salience signals”. Also in: Mindfulness, Self.
Gently let go of the idea, the feeling, of there being a meditator. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
We interpret states according to our stage. Also in: Human, Mindfulness.
Don't dismiss what you find just because it doesn't match your existing model. Also in: Human, Mindfulness.
Take the lower position, the root, the base. Also in: Daoism, Mindfulness, Human.
Simply rest as that which is aware. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness, Self.
Relax into stillness. Light and easy, not rigid. Also in: Mindfulness, Experience.
Find just enough space to notice what's going on. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
Be as careful at the end as at the beginning. Also in: Daoism, Mindfulness.
And not-this: notice how sounds happen in silence. Also in: Experience, Nondual, Mindfulness.
Be interested in what's happening, not caught up in it and identified with it. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
Be, accept, the whole of your experience, not just some of it. Also in: Mindfulness, Experience.
What happens when you bring compassion to the feeling? Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Human.
Quiet the mind, open the heart. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
More important than what's happening is how you meet it. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Mindful presence, mindful response. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Human.
Dissolve conflict (not avoid it) by bringing non-reactivity. Also in: Mindfulness, Human.
Let problems support your practice, enhance your ability to respond appropriately. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Mindfulness.
Experience emotions fully, without separation or rejection, without adding anything. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Mindfulness.
The Path is a river. Also in: Mindfulness, Motion.
Spend time and attention in large bills. Also in: Mindfulness, Human.
Even a "bad session" of meditation interrupts the non-stop flow of thoughts. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Renunciation, not action, is the path to liberation. Also in: Waking-up, Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Read and reread until you have an intuitive sense of what's behind the words. Also in: Daoism, Mindfulness.
Have a mind like a mirror: chase nothing; welcome nothing; respond but don't store. Also in: Daoism, Mindfulness.
Treat waiting as unexpected extra time to practice. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
There's a lot going on there... Also in: Mindfulness.
Notice the space around objects, connecting objects. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Awareness brings choice. Choice brings freedom. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
We practice to (have the strength to) confront problems effectively. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Resilience.
Proceeding slowly means mistakes instruct. Also in: Slowness, Mindfulness.
Mindfulness brings concentration, concentration brings insight. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Excess invites disaster. Also in: Daoism, Slowness, Mindfulness.
Enlightenment is non-interference. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Use whatever happens as opportunity to wake up, to soften. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
To do things carefully, do them quietly. Also in: Slowness, Mindfulness.
Refrain, not repress. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Constantly "scratching the itch" conditions the mind to keep looking for more stimulation. Also in: Human, Slowness, Mindfulness.
Sometimes we need to turn towards positivity to combat our inherent negativity bias. Also in: Mindfulness, Human.
Practice reduces the lag time, lets us catch it more quickly. Also in: Mindfulness.
Pay attention, no matter what. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Leave space for things to untangle themselves. Also in: Slowness, Mindfulness, Resilience.
We tend to assume that we can only be happy if things go the way we want. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Human.
How far away from the object are your thoughts about the object? Also in: Mindfulness, Experience.
What's there when there's no problem to solve? Also in: Mindfulness, Experience.
Seen in the first instant, or not at all. Before concepts, not beyond them. Also in: Mindfulness, Self.
It's right on the surface. Like a window as mirror instead of a window. Also in: Mindfulness, Self.
In this moment, is there really a problem? Also in: Acceptance, Mindfulness.
You can't become happy, you can only be happy. Also in: Mindfulness.
Break the illusion of separateness of anything you can notice. Also in: Mindfulness, Waking-up, Nondual.
The cramp of self-consciousness is the opposite of nondual feeling. Also in: Nondual, Mindfulness, Self, Waking-up.
"If only" mind sets us up to be miserable now. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Acceptance.
An open hand, not a closed fist. Also in: Mindfulness.
Use departures from your authentic self as mindfulness alarms. Also in: Mindfulness.
Treat people like trees: appreciate them the way they are. Also in: Human, Mindfulness.
Become somatically familiar with different states. Also in: Mindfulness.
Awakening is an ongoing process, a ripening, cultivation. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Motion.
Your understanding is flawed. Seek to improve it. Adopt a learning stance, be tentative. Also in: Human, Mindfulness.
Not perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning actions with values. Also in: Mindfulness, Stoicism.
Make the most generous assumption, choose the most respectful interpretation. Also in: Human, Mindfulness.
Drop all your frames of reference. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
Take measured doses of discomfort to expand your comfort zone. Also in: Brave, Mindfulness, Stoicism.
Right fit. Consider the stage and the season you're in. Also in: Acceptance, Mindfulness.
Choices open up when you notice your thoughts. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
Practice to get speedy, flexible, innovative responses to tricky situations. Also in: Human, Mindfulness.
Relinquish your reaction to experience, and simply notice it. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness, Acceptance, Waking-up.
Watch the first step. Also in: Mindfulness.
The richness of life is unedited, unjudged, aesthetic, experience. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Mindfulness.
Get past the conceptual overlay and just notice the raw data, direct experience. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
You don't have to fulfil a desire for it to pass away. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
The three chair exercise: The Criticizer, the Criticized, and the Compassionate Observer. Also in: Mindfulness, Self, Acceptance.
This moment, as it is, is good enough. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness, Buddhism, Waking-up.
The sky, not the clouds. Also in: Self, Buddhism, Mindfulness.
The Second Arrow. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Resilience.
The ocean, not the waves. Also in: Self, Buddhism, Mindfulness, Resilience.
Follow The Middle Way. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
The feeling of self is what it feels like to be thinking without realising you're thinking. Also in: Self, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
The big boulder is only heavy if you pick it up. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Resilience.
Tend the garden. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Take the backward step. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Slow your tempo. Also in: Slowness, Daoism, Mindfulness.
See more clearly. See things as they are, see ourselves as we are. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Love.
Rush in on loss of contact. Also in: Mindfulness, Brave.
Reframe. In time, in space. Also in: Mindfulness, Stoicism, Human, Love.
Recognise the suffering. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Human, Resilience.
RAIN. Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Acceptance.
People's reactions are the result of their pain. Also in: Human, Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Pay more attention. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Waking-up.
Pay lively attention to your own experience. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Our true nature is always and already present. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness.
Use nonviolent communication. Speek to needs, nonjudgementally. Also in: Human, Mindfulness.
Movement masks dukkha. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Slowness.
Make time to reflect. Reflection is where we cement learning. Also in: Mindfulness, Stoicism, Slowness.
Listen more closely, attentively, and actively. Really hear what’s being said. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Human.
Leave everything as it is, in its place. Also in: Experience, Buddhism, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
Have a Growth Mindset. See that setbacks are a chance to learn, that success comes from effort not innate skill. Also in: Mindfulness, Stoicism, Brave.
Expand your window of tolerance. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Everything is allowed, even resistance. Also in: Acceptance, Mindfulness, Buddhism, Experience.
Don't try. Don't try not to try. Relax. Let go. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Don’t add a story. Also in: Mindfulness, Resilience, Buddhism, Stoicism.
Contemplate the sage. Also in: Mindfulness, Stoicism.
Come home to the present. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Begin Again, with with a fresh, open-hearted, perspective. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Resilience, Waking-up.
Be the loving witness. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Acceptance.
Be "happy for no reason." Also in: Human, Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Be comfortable with ambiguity. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Human.
Appreciate the sights you see from the train. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Waking-up.

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