Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
JON KABAT-ZINNWriting can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
JON KABAT-ZINNNo one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
JON KABAT-ZINNFrom the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
JON KABAT-ZINNPatience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
JON KABAT-ZINNMindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
JON KABAT-ZINNIn letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
JON KABAT-ZINNMeditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
JON KABAT-ZINNMeditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
JON KABAT-ZINNThis is something called “walking meditation.” The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
JON KABAT-ZINNWhen experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
JON KABAT-ZINNAll the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
JON KABAT-ZINNMeditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
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