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us are going well, we can easily distract ourselves by placing all of our attention on those parts. We can choose to live a partial life, ignoring the reality that all the parts of ourselves taken together—not just the successful ones—make us who we are.
KINDNESS MEDITATION
prevalent challenges participants identified was the recognition that we are overscheduled and constantly distracted, leaving no space for us to find the most skillful ways to guide, or to initiate, change. We multitask even though some part of us knows that so much is lost when we do
we don’t find the time and space to acknowledge the accomplishment,
When we stop long enough to listen deeply, we can often feel this pull inside of us.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! ANNE FRANK
We are first struck by the simple act of stopping. Although we may have a vague sense of our busy-ness, it isn’t until we actually put down the electronics and the other distractions for a time that we begin to reinhabit our bodies and minds, and usually our hearts.
Daily meditations invite us to regularly be in our own good company and, while we are, to notice more about how we are really doing—not how we think we’re
doing or how others think w...
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It teaches you to be more fully aware of what is here, and invites you to experiment with intentional choices that make small changes. Your practices often allow you to see new, more skillful ways to meet each moment. You keep learning, and you keep strengthening and cultivating your innate ability to focus, see clearly, be creative, and embody compassion.
capacity to connect to yourself,
“Who do you want to be when you grow up?”
REFLECTION: WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE?
