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Repeating simple tasks with a clear intention can reprogram unconscious mental processes. This can completely transform who you are as a person.
Mindfulness allows us to recognize options, choose responses, and take control of our lives. It gives us the power to become the person we want to be. It also leads to Insight, Wisdom, and Awakening.
Mindfulness is the optimal interaction between attention and peripheral awareness.
Attention analyzes experience, and peripheral awareness provides the context. When one or the other doesn’t do its job, we misinterpret, overreact, and make poor decisions.
The condition in which the mind “stands back” to observe its own state and activities is called metacognitive introspective awareness.
Likewise, every action that has an unskillful intent, even the most subtle, is like a small bit of grit reducing the mind’s performance. As a virtuous person, you’ll enjoy a peace of mind that enables you to reach the highest Stages of meditation.
A deep purification of the mind happens in meditation, and a large part of that purification involves putting to rest concerns about past misconduct, actual or perceived.
Joy overcomes Worry by giving you confidence that you can handle life’s challenges. Joy overcomes Remorse by making you eager to set things right.
