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Archive for November, 2011
Awakening
Sunday, November 6th, 2011Suffering is not the result of what is happening, but our relationship to what is happening. It is our resistance to the experience that escalates suffering. Our pain in an experience may be relatively great, but if our resistance to it is relatively low- our suffering is diminished.
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011As we begin to see just how ephemeral our thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations are- we come to hold them more lightly.
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Friday, November 4th, 2011Our intention to practice mindfulness is a direction (i.e. process) rather than a destination (i.e. goal).
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011Refined ‘mindsight’ can bridge the reverberant connection between our ‘experiencing’ or ‘living self’ and our ‘observing’ or ‘witnessing awareness’.
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011If we don’t understand our own psychodynamics- the structure and characteristics of our difficulties- how can we possibly develop new, more adaptive behaviors?
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011“Witness consciousness”, “observing self”, or “awarenessing” is skillful, non-judgmental observation that allows us to clearly see our “reactionary forces” without getting carried away by them.
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011Mindfulness strengthens our mirror neurons, which helps us to cultivate empathy for others- “a sense of another’s private world as if it was our own”.