Quotes About Awareness

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.

Children are particularly vulnerable to becoming the targets of the projection of our nonconscious emotions and unresolved issues.

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

To put it simply, asking the why-what-how questions helps us remember who our kids are and what they need.

self and mind may be deeply interrelated, with self being constructed from the experience of mind.

Eventually, you will come to know with all your brain cells that your authentic self is the one thing you can trust the most.

This pause between reactive and responsive is the beginning of choice, intention, and skillfulness as a parent.

Hay unos ojitos que están observándote para ver cómo te tranquilizas tú. Tus acciones establecerán el ejemplo de cómo se toma una buena decisión en un momento de emociones intensas en el que tú mismo corres el peligro de perder los papeles.

inhibiting impulses, managing big angry feelings, and considering the impact of their behavior on others. Learning

stage, and what they are ultimately capable of. This is how we use our own mindsight skills to see the mind behind our children's behavior.

Remember that after ninety seconds an unimpeded emotion will begin to transform on its own. It is often how we fret over a feeling that creates suffering and maintains the intensity and duration of that feeling in our lives." Excerpt From Brainstorm Daniel J. Siegel, MD

La objetividad impide que nos veamos arrastrados por nuestros pensamientos y sentimientos. Utiliza la capacidad de la mente para ser consciente de que sus actividades presentes, como los pensamientos, sentimientos, recuerdos, creencias e intenciones, son pasajeras y no forman la totalidad de quienes somos.

We're also not talking about wearing yourself (and your kids) out by frantically trying to fill every experience with significance and meaning. We're talking about simply being present with your children so you can help them become better integrated.

La apertura se refiere a ser receptivos a todo lo que se presenta ante nuestra conciencia y a no apegarnos a ideas preconcebidas sobre cómo «deberían» ser las cosas.

even though entire libraries have been written discussing mental illness, mental health is rarely defined.

La observación es la capacidad de percibirnos a nosotros mismos mientras vivimos un suceso.

In fact, research shows that merely assigning a name or label to what we feel literally calms down the activity of the emotional circuitry in the right hemisphere.

As interns we attempted to avoid the overwhelming awareness of the patients' passive, helpless, and vulnerable experience by identifying ourselves only as active, empowered, and invulnerable medical workers. The child's vulnerability became a threat to our active but nonconscious effort to avoid our feelings of vulnerability and helplessness. In retrospect, the children's vulnerability became the enemy.

Learning this skill of distinguishing awareness from that which you are aware of will enable you to expand the container of consciousness and empower you to "taste" so much more than just a salty glass of water.

Simply by drawing your child's attention to other people's emotions during everyday encounters, you can open up whole new levels of compassion within them and exercise their upstairs brain. Scientists are beginning more and more to think

We don't simply react to their external actions, we tune in to the mind behind the behavior.

Kids whose parents talk to them about their feelings also develop a more robust emotional intelligence and can therefore be better at noticing and understanding their own and other people's feelings. Neurons that fire together wire together, changing the changeable brain.

As parents become more aware and emotionally healthy, their children reap the rewards and move toward health as well. That means that integrating and cultivating your own brain is one of the most loving and generous gifts you can give your children.