Vince has learned to notice the drifting and bring his attention back to the breath without giving himself a hard time about it. He has stopped getting so frustrated by the fact that his attention tends to get hijacked by his various thoughts. Not that it doesn’t continue to happen. But learning to witness this whole process without reacting to it so automatically has allowed him to refocus on the sensations of breathing much more reliably than when he is caught up in being self-judgmental.
Isn’t this true of everything? Has getting all pissy about things going wrong every helped to fix them? So why do we continue to do that to ourselves?
