Quotes About Mindfulness

I want fewer interruptions in my day. I have eliminated a lot of things from my life. I'm on a declining scale of wanting things.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Like I always say - be where you're at. For me, that means that when I'm home with my family and the phone rings with a number I don't recognize, I don't pick it up; it could be an important call, or it could be a radio interview that I would usually make time for.

There is an old Zen saying about seeing the moon's reflection in a pond. If the surface of the pond is agitated and full of ripples, the moon's reflection won't look anything like the moon. That agitation, those ripples, are your constant thoughts and feelings, which disturb your ability to perceive truth. When the pond is perfectly still, however -when your thoughts and feelings withdraw and stay quiet -then you can see the moon's reflection. You can perceive the truth.

With great effort, she dragged her attention away from the book

I'm really not so crazy. I mean, I try not to do things that make me really miserable.

This sense of 'place' -- that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved.

If you don't love it, don't eat it, and if you love it, savor it.

Make food choices that honor your health and taste buds while making you feel good. Remember that you don't have to eat a perfect diet to be healthy. You will not suddenly get a nutrient deficiency, or gain weight from one snack, one meal, or one day of eating. It's what you eat consistently over time that matters. Progress, not perfection, is what counts.

Listen for the body signals that tell you that you are no longer hungry. Observe the signs that show that you're comfortably full. Pause in the middle of a meal or snack and ask yourself how the food tastes, and what your current fullness level is.

You have forgotten what you really like to eat and instead eat what you think you "should" eat.

We define healthy eating as having a healthy balance of foods and having a healthy relationship with food.

and you dread eating the foods you love, because you're afraid it will be hard to stop.

honor your hunger, respect your fullness, cope with feelings with kindness, reject the diet mentality).

Self-care is defined as the daily process of attending to your basic physical and emotional needs, which include the shaping of your daily routine, relationships, and environment, as needed to promote self-care (Cook-Cottone 2015).

Ironically a "good" or "bad" scale number can both trigger overeating—whether it's a congratulatory eating party or a consolation party.

The perpetual pursuit of food plans and trying to change your body size rob you of truly getting to know yourself and your emotions. Dieting can serve as a coping mechanism, as can over-exercising—which ultimately disconnects you from your feelings.

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the many experiences you will encounter. If, however, you focus on the end result (which for many people is weight or the amount of pounds lost), it can make you feel overwhelmed and discouraged, and end up sabotaging the process.

Weighing in on the scale only serves to keep you focused on your weight; it doesn't help with the process of getting back in touch with Intuitive Eating.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.