Quotes About Mindfulness

Management is all-encompassing. That's something I've learned since starting this job. I find it very difficult to switch off. I can be at the cinema or out for a meal with my wife, and I'm thinking constantly about what my players are doing.

It's nice to have a few moments at night to help me switch off.

I am professional. If I am on the field, I am 100 per cent focused on that. Off the field, I switch off.

When I'm playing football I'm switched off to everything else - it frees my mind.

Sting is much better at switching off than I am. He can concentrate and meditate whatever might be going on in the room and is far more disciplined.

I just love switching stuff off and going for a run, or sitting down and eating cake.

Self-analysis is the sworn enemy of regret-free living.

Restrictiveness is not synonymous with food.

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.

to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender...

Pajamas are good for the soul.

if you smile for no reason at all you will actually start to feel happy

Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.

Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don't have to depend on the wind anymore. She doesn't mean that it's a real veil. And it isn't about magic, or some idea that maybe God is looking right at you, or an angel is sitting next to you, or anything like that. Mom doesn't think in those ways. It's just her way of saying that most of the time, people get distracted by little stuff and ignore the big stuff.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

One of the first things Miriam told me about was how to worry. She wanted me to worry for five minutes straight, two times a day. She said I should sit quietly somewhere, maybe with a piece of paper and some colored pencils, and just worry, one time in the morning and once at night (but not right before bed). And if my worry showed up at any other time, like during school or at Angus's house, Miriam said I should tell it, "Go away, and I'll see you later". -Bea

Life was anything but fast, in your opinion. If it went any more slowly, time would probably start to run backward.

Miriam says don't lie down inside a bad feeling if you can help it" - Bea

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

Many of us would like to see an end to discrimination of all kinds, happier families, and a safer, more harmonious future for our children. But how can we as individuals make a difference? We can begin by learning to listen in a mindful way. Listening is the first step in making people feel valued. Mindful listening allows us to do more than take in peoples words; it helps us better understand the how and why of their views.

coming to terms with things as they are, with an awareness of how they have been, in order to feel, think, speak, and behave in ways that are increasingly inclusive, integrated, and balanced.