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Book: Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment--And Your Life
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  1. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners:

    paying attention on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally.
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  2. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners:

    Perhaps over time we can adjust our default setting to one of greater mindfulness rather than of mindlessness and being lost in thought. As
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  3. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners:

    any change that comes about in your life will be primarily because of your own efforts
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  4. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners:

    If you can't entirely trust what you think, what about trusting awareness? What about trusting your heart? What about trusting your motivation to at least do no harm? What about trusting your experience until it's proven to be inaccurate - and then trusting that discovery?
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  5. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners:

    In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.
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  6. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners:

    you think of meditation as any way in which we engage in {1} systematically regulating our attention and energy {2} thereby influencing and possibly transforming the quality of our experience {3} in the service of realizing the full range of our humanity and of {4} our relationships to others and the world. Ultimately,
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  7. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners:

    When you practice mindfulness, the first thing you are likely to notice is how mindless you can be. Let's say you decide to focus on the feeling of the breath moving in and out of the body. It is happening in the present moment. It is important. You can't live without breathing. It is not hard to locate the sensations in the body associated with breathing, at the belly or in the chest, or at the nostrils. You might find yourself saying, "What is the big deal? I will just keep my focus on the breath." Well, lots of luck with that one. Because invariably, you will find that the mind has a life of its own and is not interested in taking orders from you about staying focused on the breath or anything else. So it is very likely that you will find your attention dissipating over and over again, forgetting about this breath in this moment, and being preoccupied with something else - anything else - in spite of your own best intentions. This is just part and parcel of the landscape of meditation practice, and it tells you something about the nature of your own mind.
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  8. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners:

    The attitude of letting go, of letting things be as they are, of non-attachment, does not imply a condition of reactive distancing or detachment, and is not to be confused with passivity, dissociative behaviors, or attempts to separate yourself even the tiniest bit from reality. It is not a pathological condition of withdrawal adopted to protect yourself. Nor is it nihilistic. It is exactly opposite: a supremely healthy condition of heart and mind. It means embracing the whole of reality in a new way.
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  9. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners:

    not get caught in their habitual patterning, to see thoughts for what they are, impersonal events, and instead be the knowing that awareness already is. Then, in that moment at least, we are already free, ready to act with greater clarity and kindness within the constantly changing field of events that is nothing other than life unfolding - not always as we think it should, but definitely as it is.
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  10. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners:

    it is the awareness that is of primary importance, no matter what the objects are that we are paying attention to.
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  11. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners:

    as long as you are breathing there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.
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  12. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Mindfulness for Beginners:

    The word discipline comes from disciple, someone who is in a position to learn.
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