🧘 Mindfulness and ...

• 🙆 Acceptance (16)
• 💖 Brave (3)
• ☸️ Buddhism (69)
• ☯️ Daoism (8)
• 📍 Experience (29)
• 👤 Human (34)
• ❤️ Love (3)
• 🌊 Motion (2)
• 🌘 Nondual (6)
• ↔️ Opposites (1)
• 💪 Resilience (8)
• 🙋 Self (14)
• 🐌 Slowness (13)
• 🏛️ Stoicism (7)
• ⏰ Waking-up (19)

🧘 Mindfulness and 🙆 Acceptance

• Sit still and feel the discomfort.
• Ask yourself: "what would be enough?"
• Notice how giving experience a warm welcome makes you feel about yourself.
• Become viscerally intimate with the truth.
• Self-forgiveness mitigates negative affect, turns avoid into approach.
• Alternate three chair exercise: the (Inner) Critic, the Coach, the Compassionate Observer.
• Let problems support your practice, enhance your ability to respond appropriately.
• Experience emotions fully, without separation or rejection, without adding anything.
• In this moment, is there really a problem?
• "If only" mind sets us up to be miserable now.
• Right fit. Consider the stage and the season you're in.
• Relinquish your reaction to experience, and simply notice it.
• The three chair exercise: The Criticizer, the Criticized, and the Compassionate Observer.
• RAIN. Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture.
• Everything is allowed, even resistance.
• Be the loving witness.

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🧘 Mindfulness and 💖 Brave

• Take measured doses of discomfort to expand your comfort zone.
• Rush in on loss of contact.
• Have a Growth Mindset. See that setbacks are a chance to learn, that success comes from effort not innate skill.

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🧘 Mindfulness and ☸️ Buddhism

• Stop and realise you are the freedom you're searching for.
• Tend patiently to your mind, like a gardener to their garden.
• Take the cushion everywhere.
• Respond to discomfort from a place of stillness.
• Practice grows the amount of life you can hold with becoming upset, without it dominating you.
• Notice how giving experience a warm welcome makes you feel about yourself.
• Become viscerally intimate with the truth.
• The story includes the feeling tone includes the raw data of experience.
• Just noticing that we were distracted, again and again: that is the practice, that is meditation.
• When meditating, be very gentle with your concentration.
• Meditation is about resting. Not-doing, relaxing, refreshing, recharging.
• The task of the meditator is to care for bad feelings, like an older sibling.
• The problem is the reactivity, triggered by the underlying feeling tone, creating a compelling narrative.
• Listen to others' needs, know your limitations, then act compassionately.
• Learn to sense the feeling tone (vedana) before you become entangled and start to spiral.
• Don't recall, don't imagine, don't think, don't examine, don't control. Rest.
• Being distracted is not a problem but staying distracted is.
• Short moments, many times.
• Reaction to thought is also another thought.
• What happens when you bring compassion to the feeling?
• Quiet the mind, open the heart.
• More important than what's happening is how you meet it.
• Mindful presence, mindful response.
• Let problems support your practice, enhance your ability to respond appropriately.
• Experience emotions fully, without separation or rejection, without adding anything.
• Even a "bad session" of meditation interrupts the non-stop flow of thoughts.
• Renunciation, not action, is the path to liberation.
• Treat waiting as unexpected extra time to practice.
• Notice the space around objects, connecting objects.
• Awareness brings choice. Choice brings freedom.
• We practice to (have the strength to) confront problems effectively.
• Mindfulness brings concentration, concentration brings insight.
• Enlightenment is non-interference.
• Use whatever happens as opportunity to wake up, to soften.
• Refrain, not repress.
• Pay attention, no matter what.
• We tend to assume that we can only be happy if things go the way we want.
• "If only" mind sets us up to be miserable now.
• Awakening is an ongoing process, a ripening, cultivation.
• The richness of life is unedited, unjudged, aesthetic, experience.
• Get past the conceptual overlay and just notice the raw data, direct experience.
• You don't have to fulfil a desire for it to pass away.
• This moment, as it is, is good enough.
• The sky, not the clouds.
• The Second Arrow. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.
• The ocean, not the waves.
• Follow The Middle Way.
• The big boulder is only heavy if you pick it up.
• Tend the garden.
• Take the backward step.
• See more clearly. See things as they are, see ourselves as we are.
• Recognise the suffering.
• RAIN. Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture.
• People's reactions are the result of their pain.
• Pay more attention.
• Pay lively attention to your own experience.
• Movement masks dukkha.
• Listen more closely, attentively, and actively. Really hear what’s being said.
• Leave everything as it is, in its place.
• Expand your window of tolerance.
• Everything is allowed, even resistance.
• Don't try. Don't try not to try. Relax. Let go.
• Don’t add a story.
• Come home to the present.
• Begin Again, with with a fresh, open-hearted, perspective.
• Be the loving witness.
• Be "happy for no reason."
• Be comfortable with ambiguity.
• Appreciate the sights you see from the train.

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🧘 Mindfulness and ☯️ Daoism

• Galling though it is at first, we need to stay in close contact with what we'd like to reject.
• Don't do anything except be open to the possibility of being more relaxed.
• Take the lower position, the root, the base.
• Be as careful at the end as at the beginning.
• Read and reread until you have an intuitive sense of what's behind the words.
• Have a mind like a mirror: chase nothing; welcome nothing; respond but don't store.
• Excess invites disaster.
• Slow your tempo.

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🧘 Mindfulness and 📍 Experience

• Transcend difficulties through deep surrender.
• Transcend difficulties through deep surrender.
• We habitually resist unpleasant experiences, which sustains and prolongs them.
• This current feeling is not solid or permanent.
• Thoughts arise without your permission.
• The mind interprets every experience almost instantly.
• Just noticing that we were distracted, again and again: that is the practice, that is meditation.
• Watch for the change from river (flow of impermanence) to eddy (contraction, resistance).
• Don't recall, don't imagine, don't think, don't examine, don't control. Rest.
• Nature shows us concrete versions of impermanence and interdependence.
• Being outdoors, in nature, wakes up our physical senses.
• Gently let go of the idea, the feeling, of there being a meditator.
• Simply rest as that which is aware.
• Relax into stillness. Light and easy, not rigid.
• Find just enough space to notice what's going on.
• And not-this: notice how sounds happen in silence.
• Be interested in what's happening, not caught up in it and identified with it.
• Be, accept, the whole of your experience, not just some of it.
• How far away from the object are your thoughts about the object?
• What's there when there's no problem to solve?
• Drop all your frames of reference.
• Choices open up when you notice your thoughts.
• Relinquish your reaction to experience, and simply notice it.
• The richness of life is unedited, unjudged, aesthetic, experience.
• Get past the conceptual overlay and just notice the raw data, direct experience.
• This moment, as it is, is good enough.
• Our true nature is always and already present.
• Leave everything as it is, in its place.
• Everything is allowed, even resistance.

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🧘 Mindfulness and 👤 Human

• How you treat yourself is how you treat others, and vice versa.
• It's only when you think about it that it hurts.
• Break the mind to body to mind negative loop.
• Ask yourself: "what would be enough?"
• Your identity can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
• Self-forgiveness mitigates negative affect, turns avoid into approach.
• Recognise your shame triggers.
• Notice how often you default to the (modern, convenient) comfort.
• What will you say no to, even thought it's worth doing?
• There's no need to tie your self-worth to your To Do list.
• There's no need to start the day with productivity debt.
• Listen to others' needs, know your limitations, then act compassionately.
• Being outdoors, in nature, wakes up our physical senses.
• We interpret states according to our stage.
• Don't dismiss what you find just because it doesn't match your existing model.
• Take the lower position, the root, the base.
• What happens when you bring compassion to the feeling?
• Mindful presence, mindful response.
• Dissolve conflict (not avoid it) by bringing non-reactivity.
• Spend time and attention in large bills.
• Constantly "scratching the itch" conditions the mind to keep looking for more stimulation.
• Sometimes we need to turn towards positivity to combat our inherent negativity bias.
• We tend to assume that we can only be happy if things go the way we want.
• Treat people like trees: appreciate them the way they are.
• Your understanding is flawed. Seek to improve it. Adopt a learning stance, be tentative.
• Make the most generous assumption, choose the most respectful interpretation.
• Practice to get speedy, flexible, innovative responses to tricky situations.
• Reframe. In time, in space.
• Recognise the suffering.
• People's reactions are the result of their pain.
• Use nonviolent communication. Speek to needs, nonjudgementally.
• Listen more closely, attentively, and actively. Really hear what’s being said.
• Be "happy for no reason."
• Be comfortable with ambiguity.

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🧘 Mindfulness and ❤️ Love

• See more clearly that things are (actually) fuzzy.
• See more clearly. See things as they are, see ourselves as we are.
• Reframe. In time, in space.

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🧘 Mindfulness and 🌊 Motion

• The Path is a river.
• Awakening is an ongoing process, a ripening, cultivation.

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🧘 Mindfulness and 🌘 Nondual

• The evidence of your unenlightment is always in the past.
• It's only when you think about it that it hurts.
• Nature shows us concrete versions of impermanence and interdependence.
• And not-this: notice how sounds happen in silence.
• Break the illusion of separateness of anything you can notice.
• The cramp of self-consciousness is the opposite of nondual feeling.

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🧘 Mindfulness and ↔️ Opposites

• We habitually resist unpleasant experiences, which sustains and prolongs them.

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🧘 Mindfulness and 💪 Resilience

• We practice to (have the strength to) confront problems effectively.
• Leave space for things to untangle themselves.
• The Second Arrow. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.
• The ocean, not the waves.
• The big boulder is only heavy if you pick it up.
• Recognise the suffering.
• Don’t add a story.
• Begin Again, with with a fresh, open-hearted, perspective.

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🧘 Mindfulness and 🙋 Self

• Instead of "don't think about pink elephants", try "only think about pink elephants forever!"
• Stop and realise you are the freedom you're searching for.
• Thoughts arise without your permission.
• Alternate three chair exercise: the (Inner) Critic, the Coach, the Compassionate Observer.
• Notice what you map to your sense of self. For example: anxiety vs indigestion.
• Emotions and feelings like anger and anxiety are information, “salience signals”.
• Simply rest as that which is aware.
• Seen in the first instant, or not at all. Before concepts, not beyond them.
• It's right on the surface. Like a window as mirror instead of a window.
• The cramp of self-consciousness is the opposite of nondual feeling.
• The three chair exercise: The Criticizer, the Criticized, and the Compassionate Observer.
• The sky, not the clouds.
• The ocean, not the waves.
• The feeling of self is what it feels like to be thinking without realising you're thinking.

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🧘 Mindfulness and 🐌 Slowness

• Desires only appear to contain imperatives.
• Practice grows the amount of life you can hold with becoming upset, without it dominating you.
• Meditation is about resting. Not-doing, relaxing, refreshing, recharging.
• The problem is the reactivity, triggered by the underlying feeling tone, creating a compelling narrative.
• Learn to sense the feeling tone (vedana) before you become entangled and start to spiral.
• Proceeding slowly means mistakes instruct.
• Excess invites disaster.
• To do things carefully, do them quietly.
• Constantly "scratching the itch" conditions the mind to keep looking for more stimulation.
• Leave space for things to untangle themselves.
• Slow your tempo.
• Movement masks dukkha.
• Make time to reflect. Reflection is where we cement learning.

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🧘 Mindfulness and 🏛️ Stoicism

• Not perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning actions with values.
• Take measured doses of discomfort to expand your comfort zone.
• Reframe. In time, in space.
• Make time to reflect. Reflection is where we cement learning.
• Have a Growth Mindset. See that setbacks are a chance to learn, that success comes from effort not innate skill.
• Don’t add a story.
• Contemplate the sage.

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🧘 Mindfulness and ⏰ Waking-up

• Instead of "don't think about pink elephants", try "only think about pink elephants forever!"
• Desires only appear to contain imperatives.
• A willingness to begin again is the key to freedom.
• What will you say no to, even thought it's worth doing?
• There's no need to tie your self-worth to your To Do list.
• There's no need to start the day with productivity debt.
• Renunciation, not action, is the path to liberation.
• Break the illusion of separateness of anything you can notice.
• The cramp of self-consciousness is the opposite of nondual feeling.
• Drop all your frames of reference.
• Relinquish your reaction to experience, and simply notice it.
• Get past the conceptual overlay and just notice the raw data, direct experience.
• You don't have to fulfil a desire for it to pass away.
• This moment, as it is, is good enough.
• The feeling of self is what it feels like to be thinking without realising you're thinking.
• Pay more attention.
• Leave everything as it is, in its place.
• Begin Again, with with a fresh, open-hearted, perspective.
• Appreciate the sights you see from the train.

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