cara communicare's List: Mindfulness_meditaatio

• We can bring more clarity and joy to our own lives and, by doing so, bring joy to others.
• attentive awareness that promotes focus, creativity, and compassion
• it helps us to discover new and powerful dimensions of ourselves
• it can lead to better communication, greater empathy, and a culture of creativity and innovation
• It can help us grow more attentive, creative, resilient, and successful. In doing so, it can create ripples of awareness and positivity that will reverberate through our communities, our society, and our world.

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• mindfulness to teach children how to focus, manage their emotions, handle their stress, and resolve conflicts.
• Mindfulness develops an “inner compass”

• Transcendental Meditation
• it is restless because we are seeking something.
• we all want to feel better
• if we give the mind a taste of the inner contentment it is looking for, it will be attracted to it and begin to settle down of its own accord.
• A quiet mind is not a state of mind to be achieved

• r world, we feel OK inside; we are at ease.

    

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• ironically, a worried mind is, by definition, discontent.
• we don't give ourselves the chance to be at peace in the present
• When you realize you have been caught in a thought, accept the fact. Don't judge or blame yourself.
• gently shift your attention back to some experience in the present moment
• Instead of following the thought,
• Let the attention rest in that experience
• but how to return to the present.
• If you wander off a hundred times, that is a hundred opportunities to practice gently returning your attention to the present.
• the greatest challenge for students is to let go of all effort
• into a state of inner silence

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• What you practice becomes stronger.”
• how you pay attention
• become curious about my mind meandering about, holding this experience in compassionate awareness. Instead of being angry at my mind, or impatient with myself,
• cultivate kindness toward myself, as well as a sense of interest and curiosity for my lived experience.
• transformational, helping me embrace myself and my experience with greater kindness and care. It has also deeply informed my clinical and academic work.

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• to break the day up into chunks
• Choose one thing, and just one thing you do everyday and make that your time to be mindful.
• Commit to this one activity, every day, every time you do it, for one week

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• Mindfulness is the opposite of "mind fullness."