Mindfulness

“Most people can't go into even five minutes of breath. They find it very hard to focus on their breath, be with themselves because their mind is racing left, right, and center, backward, forward, and, you know, into the worst scenarios all the time”

“People say mindfulness, meditation, things like that, that, that can increase the psychological space between stimulus and response. And that is something that Obviously does help over the long term, but it's in my opinion, no nowhere near as kind of rapid and…”

“I think mindfulness soon has an upcoming cultural moment that is going to be defined by its practicality, not its woo-woo-ness, not its fairytale rainbow-ness, but it's, Hey, here's how we're actually going to do it.”

“The first step is to recognize what emotion is there, and we were actually taught to begin to name them. Anger, rage, fear, longing, love, delight, joy, tenderness anxiety, amusement. I mean, I've got a list of 500 emotions. To begin to recognize them, to feel…”

“Our thoughts Try to keep us safe in all kinds of ways. Try to keep us safe from pain, from, you know, difficulty, from humiliation, from loss, and so forth, and try to help us get everything around us that will keep protect us and keep us safe, whether it's mo…”

“Society benefits from everybody being plagued by these kinds of things, because it leads to human progress and, you know, woe to the Bay Area, you know adherent to mindfulness and meditation, you know, to find calm and peace. Like we don't get peace from pro…”

“And she invited me in 2014 to speak to a group of a thousand consultants on stage about mindfulness.”

“The three shifts are the shifts from small self to no self to this kind of true nature operating system. So that's the shift of identity. Then there's a shift of knowing from thought-based knowing that creates a thinker to not knowing or non-conceptual knowing…”

“And most meditation systems stop there. So most meditation systems do, you know, move from everyday mind to either subtle body or subtle energy. You know, first levels of practice, dropping in exercise, yoga, or just basic mindfulness, detached witness.”

“But in this method of glimpsing, it literally takes three seconds to three minutes to let go and then tune in to the already awake awareness that's timeless, boundless, contentless, and you feel almost like you're plugging in or handing off a baton, and then y…”

“What they discovered in doing these brain scans was something they did not expect, was that The group that was practicing mindfulness had good results in terms of their OCD, but also that it seemed to reactivate what psychologists call neuroplasticity.”

“The whole concept of mindfulness and meditation is about allowing things in and just sitting with them rather than distracting or pushing them away or trying to always be kind of achieving or feeling good, but never feeling your feelings. And it's about that. …”