Quotes About Mindfulness

These skills involve consciously experiencing feelings as feelings, thoughts as thoughts, memories as memories, and so on.

It is based on a pragmatic philosophy of science called functional contextualism

Psychological flexibility can be defined as contacting the present moment as a conscious human being, fully and without needless defense—as it is and not as what it says it is—and persisting with or changing a behavior in the service of chosen values.

As human beings increasingly look inward, life begins to seem more like a problem to be solved than a process to be fully experienced.

Psychological flexibility is the ability to feel and think with openness, to attend voluntarily to your experience of the present moment, and to move your life in directions that are important to you, building habits that allow you to live life in accordance with your values and aspirations.

Psychological rigidity is at its core an attempt to avoid negative thoughts and feelings caused by difficult experiences, both when they occur and in our memory of them.

In the ACT approach, a goal of healthy living is not so much to feel good as to feel good. It is psychologically healthy to have unpleasant thoughts and feelings as well as pleasant ones, and doing so gives us full access to the richness of our unique personal histories

The "I/here/nowness" of consciousness itself is an aspect of self that transcends any particular content of awareness—it is the context of verbal knowing itself.

A good way to assess for self-as-context is to examine the flexibility of perspective taking via the interview itself.

Make sure you've always got one foot on his brakes and another on yours.

Self awareness gives us ultimate human freedom.

When was the last time you sat for an hour of pure, unadulterated thinking?

una persona que utiliza un ordenador experimenta una «deriva cognitiva» si pasa más de un segundo entre hacer clic con el ratón y ver nuevos datos en la pantalla. Si pasan diez segundos, la mente de la persona está ya en otro sitio.

After all, just because you're at the office is no reason to stop thinking.

He who angers you conquers you. —Elizabeth Kenny

Flow is not the singular intensity of focusing "like a laser," as we often say. And it is not the miraculous illumination of a sudden brainstorm. Rather, it is more the feeling of drifting along a stream, being carried in a clear direction, but still tossed in surprising ways by the eddies and whirls of moving water.

From a quality-of-life perspective, psychologists have found that the people who have the most flow in their lives are the happiest people on earth.

Applying this idea in our daily life means breaking tasks into bite-size chunks and setting goals accordingly. A writer, for example, is better off trying to pen three great paragraphs at a time—the equivalent of moving through Mandy-Rae's kick cycles—rather than attempting one great chapter. Think challenging, yet manageable—just enough stimulation to shortcut attention into the now, not enough stress to pull you back out again.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness.

He defined the state as "being so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.

Most of our fears and most of our anxieties don't exist in the present

This means flow packs a double punch: it doesn't just increase our decision-making abilities—it increases our creative decision-making abilities. Dramatically.

Companionship drives focus into the now

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his masterwork, Creativity.