Quotes About Awareness

With practice, you'll be enriching not only your attentional skills, but your experience of consciousness and of the mind itself.

When that trait is an integrated mind, this means that we can move from automatic reactivity without choice to the freedom of responsiveness with choice.

asking ourselves these three questions—why, what, and how

Deja pasar las nubes de las emociones: enseña que los sentimientos vienen y se van

Sit. Feast on your life.

mental health as our ability to remain in a "river of well-being.

El mindsight aparece cuando nuestra comunicación, con los demás y con nosotros mismos, nos ayuda a reflexionar sobre quiénes somos y sobre lo que sucede en nuestro interior.

synthesizing the quantitative rigor of scientific discoveries with the subtlety of our subjective lives. When

This is the way we stimulate neuronal activation and growth—how we SNAG the brain toward a more vertically integrated state as we connect body to cortex with interoception. The more we focus our attention toward bodily sensations within our subjective experience in awareness, the more we activate the physical correlate of insula activation and subsequent growth. As

The experiential, subjective side of reality is non-objective in that you couldn't weigh it, hold it in your hand, or capture the subjective nature of such inner experiences with a camera—not even with a functional brain-imaging scanner. This

Daniel J. Siegel

Ready to hear me, ready to learn, ready to understand?

Mindsight and The Developing Mind,

La «cantidad de tiempo» sí importa. Claro que sí. Pero ver a un niño va más allá de la mera presencia física. Conlleva estar en sintonía con lo que sucede dentro de ellos y centrar realmente la atención en sus sentimientos, pensamientos y recuerdos íntimos, lo que sea que pase por sus mentes, que subyazga a su comportamiento.

The problem with an implicit memory, especially of a painful or negative experience, is that when we aren't aware of it, it becomes a buried land mine that can limit us in significant and sometimes debilitating ways.

tuning in to her emotions. That attunement helped her "feel felt

Tenemos que dejar que aprendan que en la vida hay dolor, pero esa lección debe ir acompañada de la profunda conciencia de que nunca tendrán que sufrir solos.

Studies using meditative interventions had found that training the mind in these ways of focused attention, open awareness, and kind intention could have many benefits, among them not only the reduction of the subjective experience of pain but also an objective diminishment of the representation of pain within the brain.

Without such refined awareness on our part, we may project a feeling of impending chaos or rigidity onto our clients, inappropriately try to move them to their safe place in an attempt to keep them in the window, and directly give them the sense that they, too, are unable to tolerate whatever feeling or memory is emerging at the time. This

merely assigning a name or label to what we feel literally calms down the activity of the emotional circuitry in the right hemisphere.

mindsight permite que seamos conscientes de nuestros procesos mentales sin vernos arrastrados por ellos; que nos liberemos del automatismo de las conductas arraigadas y de las respuestas rutinarias, y que rompamos los ciclos emocionales reactivos en los que tendemos a quedarnos atrapados.

at these moments, logic isn't our primary vehicle for bringing some sort of

What Teresa needed was to shift from being reactive to becoming receptive

Attunement is the act of focusing on another person (or ourselves) to bring into our awareness the internal state of the other in interpersonal attunement (or the self, in intrapersonal attunement). Resonance