Bringing Mindfulness to Life
Mindfulness helps us be more attentive to how our thoughts can disconnect us from our present moment reality. Only when we are aware of our thoughts can we choose to let them go. As we recognize they are simply transient electrical impulses in our brain and not our actual experience, they lose their power over us. When you find yourself pushed and pulled by thoughts, recall what we teach in SHINE…
We rarely pay our breath much attention as we move throughout each day. With mindfulness practice, we return our awareness . . . again and again . . . to the breath. The most important thing one SHINE participant learned recently was “that my breath is very helpful when I want to relax.”
How might our country be different if we greeted everyone we meet by honoring the greatness within them? The practice of honoring greatness within ourselves and others, borrowed from the Tibetan greeting Tashi Deleh, is the first Key to Mindfulness in the SHINE program.
