The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills to Handle Stress…and Everything Else (Life Skills to Handle Stress... and Everything Else)

by Holly B. Rogers

Because accepting each moment as it is—non-striving—is an absolutely essential element of mindfulness meditation. Non-striving is the bedrock of mindfulness. It may seem irrational, but it is a fundamental truth of this practice that you can only achieve these states by being completely unattached to achieving them.