"Life is too short, grudges are a waste of perfect happiness, laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change. Love deeply, and forgive quickly, take chances, give everything, and have no regrets. Life is too short to be unhappy. You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you've got, and always remember what you had. Always forgive, but never forget, learn from your mistakes, but never regret. People change, and things go wrong, but always remember, life goes on."
What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is awareness. By learning to observe your thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations in the present moment, you cultivate a new way of living your life; skillfully responding to stress stimuli, as opposed to reacting to it.
While practicing awareness may seem a simple concept, it's far from simple. Our conditioned ways of being in our outer and inner worlds have us either dwelling on past events or worrying about future threats that may never come to be. Very seldom do we find ourselves residing in the now - which of course, is all we really ever have. The practice of mindfulness is unlearning the habitual patterns that fuel our stress and reactivity. It involves deliberately slowing down to notice, acknowledge and be with our selves and our situations as they are, right now, without judgment and the need to change things in order to be happy. Mindfulness is living life consciously, one moment at a time.
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