What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. Paying attention in this way is believed to be healing in and of itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Mindfulness is the light that shows us the way, giving birth to insight, awakening, compassion, and love."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
― Jon Kabat-Zinn
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. ― Thich Nhat Hanh
What we call 'I' is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. ― Shunryu Suzuki
The past and future are just thoughts happening in the present.
― Unknown
Learn to be still in the midst of activity. ― Indirha Gandhi
Peace: it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.
It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
Most importantly, mindfulness practice empowers clients, grounds them in their daily lives, and enhances their quality of life (Kabat-Zinn, 1990).
According to psychotherapist Mark Epstein (1995), Buddhist psychology offers a practical method that provides more than the "relative relief" of psychotherapy; it helps to free us from constant craving, a false sense of self, and from the endless desire to be other than where we are at any given moment.
It also offers an effective cognitive technique for the development of self- awareness (Kutz et al., 1985) and provides insight into the nature of the self.
Mindful Awareness is a way of being in which one has an open awareness of all that arises in one’s realm of experience, moment by moment. This can include accepting, non-judgmental awareness of:
a) Internal events (including physical sensations, thoughts, emotions, reactions);
b) External events (including sights, sounds, other people); and
c) The interplay between internal and external, or even between internal aspects of mind or other aspects of self.
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