I consider mindfulness one of the central ways we can unhook from self-limiting experiences and gradually gain more insight and understanding into the ways we avoid and negate undigested aspects and parts of our full totality. The full totality is not just a dissected version of who we want to be or an idealized glossy snapshot we want to portray.
Read MoreIt is much easier to approach your experience with curiousity and a sense of discovery. It is less helpful to reject yourself for certain inner struggles and get trapped in comparison or ideas about what is the standard way to be and behave. This in itself can lead to a lot of suffering and wanting to fix your experience, as if it isn't complete and perfect the way it is. It is much easier to pay attention to what is actually happening to you.
Read MoreMindfulness is not something complicated. It is an intrinsic quality of the innate awareness we are. We loose the ability to be mindful when we identify with structures, ideas from the past, and habits that form our sense of self. We alienate ourselves from a basic sense of being, a simplicity of being that goes beyond the habituated fixated self we normally identify with or believe we are.
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Nicole Koch is the founder of Mandala Mind, a blog about mindfulness and transformation. You can connect with her on Facebook and Twitter.
I have been helping hundreds of people setting goals, being accountable and letting go of limiting belief structures. In my work with people I always have listened to the four conditions of how to set well-formed goals, which specifically reveals itself when I ask the question "What do you want?".
Read MorePlease subscribe to the blog rss or e-mail. There are so many things to be thankful for every day. Most of the time, we forget how many things we can appreciate and be grateful for. It is important to remember that it is the ordinary moments that deserve special attention, and acknowledgment.
It is not necessary to reserve celebration for special events, it is possible to celebrate your life ongoingly and be in touch with the ordinary specialness of each day.
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If you have read articles on this blog previously you may have read the post A Strategy To Get Unstuck.
In this post I wanted to focus more on principles to get you unstuck.
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