Quotes About Mindfulness

Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness."

The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress."

There is an unlimited amount of power to be found in simplicity. Keep your intent and action simple and the doors of success, happiness, and abundance will fly open for you."

Time waits for no one. There is only one time for happiness and the time is NOW!"

We can all fight the battles of just one day. It is when we add the burdens of two uncontrollable days, yesterday and tomorrow, that we get overwhelmed.

We only have now! Everything else is either imagination or memory."

You have the ability to choose your reactions."

You have to create the space for God to fill."

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot.

When an idea comes you must capture it before the idea vanishes forever. The best way to do this is to keep a pen and paper on hand at all times.

Step #1: Know the Difference between Bad Habits and Addictions

We will only be able to live in harmony with our planet, other species and with each other when we are able to live in harmony with ourselves.

Tell yourself that this is the place you're meant to be, at least for now. Let your present situation be your entire world, at least for now. Then you'll sense something far better than the discord of endless desires: the ease and grace of acceptance and the joy of truly being where you are.

Attention is an alchemy that turns dullness to beauty and anxiety to ease.

Just for a moment let your mind be quiet and see how fears evaporate see how desires withdraw like the claws of an animal that's no longer threatened.

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

this early learning of how to do things one tiny little step at a time. I learned to not worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

What we need to learn to do is to look at thought, rather than from thought.

You can say it this way: if you learn to be less reactive to stress through the cultivation of flexibility pivots, the body starts turning off those reaction systems, including genetic expression switches that may have been originally thrown not by you but by your parents and grandparents. How cool is that?

The central shift is from a focus on what you think and feel to how do you relate to what you think and feel. Specifically, the new emphasis is on learning to step back from what you are thinking, notice it, and open up to what you are experiencing. These steps keep us from doing the damage to ourselves that efforts to avoid or control our thoughts or feelings inflict, allowing us to focus our energies on taking the positive actions that can alleviate our suffering.

ACT uses acceptance and mindfulness processes and commitment and behavioral activation processes to produce psychological flexibility. It seeks to bring human language and cognition under better contextual control so as to overcome the repertoire-narrowing effects of an excessive reliance on a problem-solving mode of mind as well as to promote a more open, centered, and engaged approach to living.

Hmmm. Let's do this and see what happens. Say out loud, 'I can't stand up or I will have a panic attack,' and then while doing that, slowly stand up").

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some. —Charles Dickens