Awareness is openly & curiously paying direct attention to things as they are right here and now. Balance is observing objects or events in our awareness with relaxed alertness, with not too much or too little effort. Care is purposefully being aware because it really matters for us and for others.
Sensitive to our own suffering, a condition of being human we all share, there is also the underlying desire to alleviate it for self and for others.
Cultivating this unconditional friendship with ourselves, we open up- expand and deepen, strengthen and stabilize our relationship.
Anything can arise in this ‘space’ of mind. What matters most is our relationship to this ‘space’- our attitude and temperament. Can we stay ‘light’- touching and letting go in this space? Can we open it up to allow what needs to freely arise in this space? Can we bring warmth and friendliness into this […]
Taking off our mask we may be uncomfortable with someone whom we don’t really know- someone who we just don’t seem to value very much.
To be fully present here & now with open, caring, and nonjudgmental awareness… is an act of mindfulness. To be mindfully aware of your thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations… is an act of kindness to ourselves. Mindful awareness is creating ‘space’ to experience things directly as they are moment by moment… to explore and examine […]