MINDFULNESS
Mindfulness can be described as the discipline of deliberately bringing your attention to the present moment to cultivate a more accepting relationship with yourself and the world around you.
It is about expanding your mind and making peace with the way things are. We don’t need things to be a certain way for us. Things can just be, we can just be. The practice of becoming more mindful brings peace of mind and clarity to our lives. We awaken to ourselves and our ability to consciously create the life we want.
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
The “beginner’s mind” is a mind that is willing to see everything as if for the first time. It allows us to look beyond expectations based on past experiences, and to be receptive to new possibilities.
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 learn to trust your own sense of self.
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.
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 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 – as you were never entitled to things being any different.
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.
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.
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