Posts Tagged ‘mindfulness exercises’
How to Break Free from Mental Captivity – Part One
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius Do you ever feel like your mind has more control of you than you do of it? Many of us have experienced times when we feel like the captain of our own ships, confidently charting…
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How to Practice Nonjudgmental Mindfulness
“Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.” – Frederick W. Faber Mindfulness involves an attitude of radical acceptance,…
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Simple Mindfulness Meditation Exercise
“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” – Voltaire The concept of taking time out of your day to engage in a mindfulness meditation exercise may seem like a luxury that your hectic schedule simply will not allow. Perhaps the very…
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Mindfulness Exercises for People Who Are “Too Busy” to Meditate
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.” – Buddha Life means constant and inevitable change. Sometimes that change takes the form of dust accumulating bit by bit on a bookshelf and at other times change manifests itself as a major life transition. There…
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3 Mindfulness Exercises to Soothe an Anxious Mind
“I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal – and soon they’ll forget my number.” – Edith Armstrong Sometimes anxiety enters our experience in the positive and motivating form of eustress, whereas…
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Increase Mindfulness of Pleasant Experiences
“For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.” – Rabindranath Tagore Mindfulness allows us to open to the constantly unfolding present moment. When we are aware of the…
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How to Mindfully Sit with Anxiety
“Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.” – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld If you want to deal with anxious feelings more effectively, it is quite helpful to begin to mindfully change your relationship with anxiety. When you learn to think about anxiety differently and respond to it in the…
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4-Step Mindfulness Exercise for Anxiety
“No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, the best of now and here.” – John Whittier Anxiety sweeps us away from the present moment into a flurry of thoughts and emotions about the past and the future. We may become overwhelmed by worry over…
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Mindfulness & Gratitude
“A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.” – Buddha When you enter into a state of mindfulness, you make the choice to open your awareness to all aspects of your experience… positive, negative, and neutral. You look at yourself, others, and the world with an open-eyed sense of…
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How to Practice “Everyday Mindfulness”
“Nothing is worth more than this day.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mindfulness is “paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally” (Kabat-Zinn, 1994, p. 4). When we begin to make contact with the present moment using the tool of mindfulness, the world gradually begins to look and feel…
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