Quotes About Awareness

Having an awakened mind means using the mental processes of attention, awareness, and intention to activate new states of mind that, with repeated practice, can become intentionally sculpted traits in a person's life.

noticing not just their words but also their nonverbal patterns of energy and information flow. These signals are the familiar primarily right-hemisphere sent and received elements of eye contact, facial expression, and tone of voice, posture, gesture, and the timing and intensity of response. The

Attunement requires presence but is a process of focused attention and clear perception. We

As you learn about the brain and consider all of the information we're offering here, don't forget about the simple and the obvious, the little things you already know. Common sense can take you a long way.

what you do and don't value, and what you do and don't give attention to, will impact who your child becomes.

As I've mentioned, research has revealed that people with dismissing narratives show physiological signs that their subcortical limbic and brainstem areas still register the importance of relationships. It's simply that the higher cortical areas, where consciousness is created, shut out this awareness in order to survive barren times. The key would be to align myself with these deeper subterranean circuits and bolster Denise's ability to integrate them into her life.

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

Instead of just reacting to the external actions, you are focusing your attention on what her inner world may be like—red, green, or blue—and communicating to that internal state of your child.

One reason big feelings can be so uncomfortable for small children is that they don't view those emotions as temporary.

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.

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,

understand. Such an approach

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

Quiero esas zapatillas de princesa ahora mismo!». Pero nos damos cuenta de que sabe perfectamente lo que hace, y que a todas luces sigue una estrategia y nos manipula para conseguir un fin deseado: que lo dejemos todo y le compremos las zapatillas en el acto.

A medida que los padres adquieren mayor conciencia y son cada vez más sanos emocionalmente, sus hijos cosechan los frutos y también ellos avanzan hacia la salud. Eso significa que integrar y cultivar tu propio cerebro es uno de los regalos más afectuosos y generosos que puedes ofrecer a tus hijos.

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.

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.

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!

my behavior is no longer under my conscious control.

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

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.