This 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-ZINNNote that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
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Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.
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The 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.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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