Awakening
Thursday, May 31st, 2012Awareness can short-circuit our emotional reactionary patterns- we can catch them on the rise before they have carried our attention away from what is directly being experienced.
Awareness can short-circuit our emotional reactionary patterns- we can catch them on the rise before they have carried our attention away from what is directly being experienced.
In our mindfulness practice, there is an openness that allows for a shift in “self-identity” to the space of awareness itself.
How we attend is both an embodied and relational process…
The regulatory process of mind can be refined by how we pay attention- by how we observe the activities of mind.
Mindfulness can help us to restore our inner measure- and to re-balance our doing with our being.
It may be simple to be mindful, but remembering to be mindful can be quite difficult.
Why do so many of our days’ events seem to slip by us? Have we lost our sense of value in the ordinary? Are we even aware of how much we are missing?
The transformative power of mindfulness lies in our direct experience of it- openly, curiously, and non-reactively.
To meet our suffering- its nature and it cause- we simply need to stay in the present moment and observe with the light of mindfulness.
It is in stillness that we learn to let go of our mental discourse- mind chatter– that prevents us from looking deeply into the nature of our own being.