Quotes About Mindfulness

To state this more succinctly, awareness of the body's state influences how we organize our lives. Knowing your body strengthens your mind.

The downstairs state of reactivity doesn't know what to do with a lot of upstairs words. Often, in moments of reactivity, nonverbals (like hugs and empathetic facial expressions) will be much more powerful.

When such resonance is enacted with positive regard, a deep feeling of coherence emerges with the subjective sensation of harmony. When

Automatic pilot (Res/App):A way of being that is driven by a state of mind that is devoid of active reflection and that often involves top-down processing. It is reflected in reactive and enduring patterns of thought and bodily posture and movement, in which the past is shaping present perceptual biases, emotional responses, and behavioral output.

the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment" (Kabat-Zinn,

Para llevar una vida equilibrada, valiosa y creativa, llena de relaciones personales bien conectadas, es crucial que nuestros dos hemisferios actúen conjuntamente.

la conciencia se fragmenta y eso da lugar a la experiencia de una mente disociada con problemas para regular la emoción, tratar con otras personas, manejar la frustración y simplemente avanzar en la vida de una manera coherente.

As we join in this moment in the physical realm—making appointments to be in the same space at a given interval of the clock—our nervous systems align their firing patterns as two sets of electrochemical entities phase shift

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sense of danger, we cannot activate what Porges calls the social engagement system. And we don't access what I've called a self-engagement system either (see

Things as they are clash with things as our top-down invariant processes expect them to be. We shove sensation through the filter of the past to make the future predictable. In the process, we lose the present. But because the present is all that exists, we have lost everything in the bargain.

You can feel whatever you feel, but you can't always do whatever you want to do.

Whatever the focus of attention, each of these mindful awareness practices involves an aiming of our awareness on two basic dimensions: Awareness of awareness and attention to intention. Such

being more open and letting go of judgment and anticipation expands our awareness of all the vicissitudes of life.

contingent response," which means that we attune our response to what our child is actually feeling, in a way that validates what's happening in her mind.

focus of attention becomes distracted, when you notice you are no longer aware of the sensations of the breath, lovingly and gently bring your attention back to the breath (or body part or image). Getting distracted is just what our minds do. As we've seen, if you think of this mindfulness training as being similar to toning a muscle, we need to have both the contraction and the relaxation to achieve muscle growth.

Time-in and the mindful awareness and presence it creates will enable your brain to literally grow more integrative fibers that create your ability to regulate emotions, attention, thinking, and behavior, and your sense of well-being and connections to others will be optimized. If carefully conducted scientific studies did not reveal this, I myself would look at this list and say, "That is too good to be true!

When we are preoccupied with the past or worried about the future, we are physically present with our children but are mentally absent.

integrar y cultivar tu propio cerebro es uno de los regalos más afectuosos y generosos que puedes ofrecer a tus hijos.

This is the way we can keep our selves well: with regular exercising of our attunement to ourselves through mindfulness practices.

And remember that just by talking about the mind, you help develop it.

Podemos comprender nuestro pasado, y si lo comprendemos, no regirá nuestro presente y nuestro futuro.

Granted, you won't always have time to think through the three questions.

Asking why, what, and how can help create an internal sense of clarity even in the face of external chaos.