Just as with other new endeavors you start in your life, mindfulness and meditation takes practice. If you want to experience acceptance and awareness of your thoughts, you need to cultivate it with repeated practice. If you are running a marathon you don’t start by running the entire 26.5 miles (or whatever the length of...
What does it mean to be mindful? What does it mean to be mindless? If you are mindful, you are aware, you are experiencing present moments with acceptance. In order to fully cultivate mindfulness, you need to intertwine all three at the same time. Experiencing mindfulness can be elusive if you don’t know what it...
It’s natural to be drawn to your thoughts and to follow them–and a real skill and discipline to resist them. Now, of course, the goal is not to resist every thought you ever have! Your thoughts are not unhealthy in and of themselves, but wouldn’t it be nice to let the negative ones roll by!...
