functions. We are forever desiring and longing, or judging and rejecting. Mental hygiene consists of noticing the ebb and flow of all those automatic grasping or rejecting impulses without being hooked by them. Bare attention is directed not only toward what’s happening on the outside but also to what’s taking place on the inside. “Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the person or situation that triggers them,” Eckhart Tolle advises.
