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Sensation
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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.
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― The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
― The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
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In the very observation of pain, a tiny window of freedom has opened up in which you have the ability to choose how you will relate to the painful sensations in that moment-and in the next, and the next after that. With mindfulness you have brought an entirely new element into the pain-of-the-stubbed-toe equation, and because of that you have changed your relationship to the sensation in your toe. And in doing so, you actually experience the pain differently. You still feel pain, but you are lib
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― Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
― Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
