The Mindfulness Solution Quotes

“Luckily, we humans evolved not only mental habits that lead us into emotional difficulty but also faculties through which we can free ourselves from them. The same skills we have used for millennia to understand and thrive in our environment can help us understand how our minds create unnecessary suffering and how to free ourselves from it.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“Mindfulness can help us embrace, rather than resist, the inevitable ups and downs of life and equip us to handle our human predicament.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“The working definition of mindfulness that my colleagues and I find most helpful is awareness of present experience with acceptance.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“Even a casual observation of our minds reveals that we are compulsive thinkers.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“Thinking and planning, wonderful and useful as they are, are at the heart of our daily emotional distress because, unlike other tools, we can’t seem to put these down when we don’t need them.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“Mindfulness also helps us loosen our painful preoccupation with “self.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“Mindfulness is singletasking.” It means being wholeheartedly present in our lives.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“Concentration, as a foundation for mindfulness, is a key step on the path to greater sanity.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“Since everything changes, and we incessantly think about how to maximize pleasure and minimize pain, it’s no wonder we find life difficult.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“mostof what makes us unhappy involves difficulty dealing with the inevitability of change.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“Mindfulness can help us all be less concerned with what happens to this me. Worries about my health, wealth, beauty, and self-esteem fall into perspective. Having a cold, the car breaking down, a bad hair day, and being afraid I just sounded like an idiot all become easier to bear. Becoming less preoccupied with me is a great relief—especially given what we know will inevitably happen to each of us.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“The traffic jam, rained-out picnic, misplaced keys, and lost sales are all easier to accept. We become more comfortable with the reality that sometimes we’ll get the date or the promotion and other times we won’t. By letting go of our struggle to control everything, we become less easily thrown by life’s daily ups and downs—and less likely to get caught in emotional problems like depression and anxiety or stress-related physical problems like chronic pain and insomnia.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“The working definition of mindfulness that my colleagues and I find most helpful is awareness of present experience with acceptance. This sounds pretty simple, so you may be thinking, “Hey, I’m already aware and accepting of my present experience.” We often think this until we take a careful look at our normal mental states, most of which turn out to be anything but mindful. In fact, researchers find that they can most reliably measure our level of mindfulness by asking us to examine our moments of everyday mindlessness.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“Mindfulness is like having the freedom to point our camera at all sorts of interesting objects once we know how to focus it.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“Try to listen as a musician might—not labeling the sounds but hearing them as music.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“I could use the practice to notice the trees as I walked to class, taste my food in the dining hall, and connect more intimately with my friends. I could watch thoughts and feelings come and go”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“Dabar pat skirkite minutę ir peržvelkite praėjusią parą. Kiek kartų jautėtės visiškai patenkinti, su dėkingumu priėmėte tai, kas vyksta jūsų gyvenime?”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“Al igual que tendemos a recordar las experiencias dolorosas, también tendemos a anticiparnos a las que pueden ocurrirnos en el futuro. Todos los recuerdos desagradables, pensamientos agitados y conclusiones pesimistas están asociados a una porción de dolor emocional, y ello aun cuando nada esté saliendo mal realmente. Así, mientras vivamos en nuestras cabezas, perdidos en narrativas sobre el pasado y el futuro, no podremos por menos de experimentar una gran cantidad de dolor.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, La solución Mindfulness (Biblioteca de Psicología)

“That shower was more vivid and absorbing than gourmet meals, amusement park rides—even moments of sexual discovery.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“We are visited by restlessness, in which staying still is difficult, and doubt, in which we wonder why we are doing this.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

“In a sense, we’re always shopping—either literally, for goods or services that we imagine will make us happy, or figuratively, for attractive sights, sounds, tastes, and other sensations.”
― Ronald D. Siegel, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems