Acceptance is being in the moment without necessarily agreeing with it. It’s about facing reality rather than trying to control it.” We have been talking about mindfulness, why it matters, and what mental attitudes allow us to cultivate it. So far, we have covered non-judging, patience, beginner’s mind, trust, and non-striving. This attitude – acceptance […]

Almost everything we do, we do for a purpose, to get something or somewhere. In contrast, the essence of mindfulness is BEING vs. DOING. When we are striving, we are living in the past and the future. When we are non-striving, we live in the present moment. Why push so hard Why keep your head […]

Who do you trust? In Erik Erikson’s eight stages of human development, the first foundational one is about “basic trust.” He focused on trust and mistrust of the outer world (especially the people in it), and to be sure this is important. Yet often what looks like “the world is untrustworthy” is at bottom “I […]