Mindfulness, a mental state of relaxed awareness of the present moment, marked by openness and curiosity toward your feelings rather than judgments of them, is a powerful tool for experiencing happiness when practiced regularly. (See blog “Ten Deep Breaths”) If you can bring mindfulness to bear on negative feelings, they lose their impact. Just let them [Read More...]
Mindfulness-oriented approaches to psychotherapy, such as Hakomi, help assist people to study how they organize their experience. What does this mean exactly? If someone has a habitual way of doing something based on an unconscious attitude or belief, the therapist helps to bring these thoughts into consciousness where they can be studied. In this way people can have more choice [Read More...]
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posted on 06-08-10 at 7:28 am in Buddhism
The central tool for investigating consciousness is our own observation. With mindfulness, we can direct our attention to notice what is going on inside us, and study how our mind operates. What we ordinarily call the mind usually refers to the “thinking mind”, the ceaseless fountain of ideas, images, creativity, evaluation, and problem solving that spontaneously [Read More...]
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