Quotes on Mindfulness

[Daniel E.]

“No two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world.”

- John Constable (1776–1837)

 

[Daniel E.]

The five facets are observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience, and non-reactivity to inner experience.

Awake Mind: Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire On-Line

 

[Daniel E.]

Source:
Contextual Schema Therapy: An Integrative Approach to Personality Disorders, Emotional Dysregulation, and Interpersonal Functioning

 

[Daniel E.]

 

[Daniel E.]

The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize. The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.

- Tenzin Palmo

 

[Daniel E.]

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

- Victor Frankl

 

[Daniel E.]

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

 

[Daniel E.]

"The real meditation is how you live your life."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

[Daniel E.]

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." ~John Muir

 

[Daniel E.]

“You must have a room or certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspaper that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody or what anyone owes you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.”

― Joseph Campbell

 

[Daniel E.]

“Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.”

― Thich Nhat Hanh

 

[Daniel E.]

"In the past, as a child, we used to breathe better. We didn't worry about the future. We stayed in the present - playing and enjoying life. So, maybe it's time to go back.”

– Cai Carvalhaes

 

[Daniel E.]

Is mindfulness making us ill? | Life and style | The Guardian

“Longer periods of meditation have at times led me to feel a loss of identity and left me feeling extremely vulnerable, almost like an open wound."

There are alternative relaxation methods that can keep you grounded: reading, carving out more time to spend with friends, and simply knowing when to take a break from the frenetic pace of life.

 

[Daniel E.]

“Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.”

― Germany Kent

 

[Daniel E.]

"Sometimes people say, 'One day you are going to look back at this and laugh.' My question is: 'Why wait?'"

"You know what? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen. The trick is: you have to feel good for no reason."

"If you can’t enjoy what you have, you can’t enjoy more of it."

~ Richard Bandler

 

[Mari]

 

[Daniel E.]

"We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment."

~ Janine Shepherd

 

[Daniel E.]

The Obsession Obliterator Meditation

Time it takes: 1 to 3 minutes
Ideal for: Breaking free from mental spirals
Use this when: Something is bugging you and you just CAN'T LET IT GO

We all have stuff we obsess over. Mistakes we've made, feeling fat, worrying about something at work...it can be hard to let these things go, but you're now trained to do exactly that! You've worked that muscle of redirect, and this mini guided-imagery meditation will help you move that along even faster.

Here's what to do next time you can't seem to stop ruminating on something:

1. Close your eyes and think about what you're obsessing over (not hard, right?).

2. Picture a computer screen, with your hand on a mouse or track pad. Direct the arrow to the topic in your imagination and click on it.

3. Imagine dragging that item to your Trash folder. Literally see it get sucked into the digital trash bin.

4. Now hit Empty Trash.

5. Imagine a blank, clean, clear page appearing on the screen, and breathe.

6. If a pop-up of the topic reappears, simply view, drag to Trash and repeat.

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/health_wellness/easy-meditations-that-improves-your-mood#ixzz5UEUj4XjD

 

[Daniel E.]

"To want to forget something is to think of it."

-- French proverb (quoted in The OCD Workbook)

 

[Daniel E.]

"Verbal knowing rests atop non-verbal knowing so completely that an illusion is created that all knowledge is verbal."

~ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change