THE PRINCIPLES OF MINDFULNESS
Non-Judging
We regularly generate biased judgments of our experience. Everything we see is labeled and categorized. Step back from all judgments of people, products, processes, or experiences. Things need not be good or bad.
Patience
Remind yourself there is no need to be impatient with yourself or others. Impatience is based upon entitlement and ingratitude. To be patient is to be open to each moment and know that things unfold in their own time.
Beginner's Mind
Trust
Honor your feelings and intuition without discounting them or writing them off because I (or anyone else) say something different. Practice taking responsibility for being yourself and learning to trust yourself.
Non-Striving
Mindfulness is a discipline that involves paying attention to the way you are in the moment – and the reason why you are this way. Never grasp for a particular state of mind. Just make peace with your experiences.
Acceptance of Things
Appreciate things for what they are – and not for being what you expected them to be. Acceptance does not mean you must sacrifice or abandon your values. Acceptance simply allows you to make peace with what is.
Let Go and Let Be
Letting go is a way of simply accepting things as they are. Let your experience be what it is and practice observing it from moment to moment. Sometimes things end, and sometimes people end.
Self-Acceptance
Make peace with who you are, who you aren’t, and how you are TODAY in your current stage of personal growth and development. All world peace begins with making peace with yourself.
Acceptance of Others
Accept people (unconditionally) in the same way you’d like to be unconditionally accepted. Accept people for who they are and NOT for who they aren’t. You are entitled to no one being anything for you.