Quotes About Mindfulness

meditation was always a challenge because I was under the impression that I had to "do" meditation. And I didn't have time for another burdensome thing to "do." Fortunately, a friend pointed out one day that we don't "do" meditation; meditation "does" us. That opened the door for me. The only thing to "do" in meditation is nothing. Even writing that I don't have to "do" one more thing makes me relax.

Y cada día el mundo te arrastrará de la mano, gritando: «¡Esto es importante! ¡Y esto! ¡Y esto!». Y cada día es cosa tuya apartar tu mano con fuerza, ponerla en tu corazón y decir: «No. Esto es lo que es importante».   IAIN THOMAS

Eighty percent of those she examined were found to have periods of "email apnea.

meditation "a reboot for your brain and your soul.

Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of Alone Together, has written about the cost of constantly documenting—i.e., photographing—our lives. These interruptions, she writes, "make it hard to settle into serious conversations with ourselves and with other people because emotionally, we keep ourselves available to be taken away from everything." And by so-obsessively documenting our experiences, we never truly have them.

bring ourselves back to that place of stillness, imperturbability, and loving—until it becomes second nature to return quickly to what is our true nature.

is a way of being that gives you the resources to deal with the ups and downs of life

According to a 2011 Gallup poll, the more money you have, the more likely you are to suffer from time famine.

When we shrink our whole reality down to pending projects, when our life becomes our endless to-do list, it's difficult to put them aside each night and let ourselves fall asleep and connect with something deeper.

And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, "This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!" And each day, it's up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, "No. This is what's important." —IAIN THOMAS

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. —WU MEN

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. —WILLIAM JAMES

Whenever we look around the world, we see smart leaders – in politics, in business, in media – making terrible decisions. What they're lacking is not IQ, but wisdom. Which is no surprise; it has never been harder to tap into our inner wisdom, because in order to do so, we have to disconnect from all our omnipresent devices – our gadgets, our screens, our social media – and reconnect with ourselves.

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.

Just as a seed grows with the warmth of the sun, so our positive qualities grow when we put our attention on them.

Creative Visualization

Hearthcraft functions on a very basic truth: Living your life is a spiritual act.

Don't multitask by combining your treats, unless you specifically design one as something stacked (a fancy coffee while reading a good book, for example). If you overload your treat time, you'll lose out on the full experience of enjoying each aspect, and the self-care might become perfunctory.

Here the word ritual doesn't mean something full-blown and complicated; instead, it means an intuitive ceremony or something set apart from everyday action by mindfulness and conscious intent. Also, the word magic means the conscious and directed attempt to effect change by combining and directing energy toward a positive goal.

Unplugging helps you refocus on yourself instead of being pulled in a zillion different directions. Those directions may all be important, but you are just as important. Unplugging allows you to focus on being in the moment, here and now. It helps you step away from the emotional roller coaster that you ride reacting to a friend's story, a news article, or outrage over worldwide events. Unplugging gives you the chance to remember who you are at your core.

to retrain your inner voice to be nurturing. Sometimes thinking of yourself as a child can help. "Did that hurt?" you can ask yourself. "It looks like it did. It's okay. It hurts, but it will be over soon. Hey, look at that pretty butterfly. I wonder where it's going right now?" Just as you'd affirm a child's emotion and then help redirect their attention from the subject that's upsetting them, you can redirect your own focus too.

spirituality does not necessarily equate to religion.

We are in training to be all right no matter what our experience is. This is not to say that there will not be countless times when we will judge the pain in our back or our breath - that is the nature of a wobbly mind - but we will increasingly see clearly that we do not want to go down this route.

Open your mind before your mouth