Mindfulness

Acceptance – not rushing to judgement

29/12/2022

Acceptance, as I keep saying, is the second half of mindfulness (the first is awareness). It means not rushing to judgment, pausing to take in the reality of situations and increasing your tolerance for experience.

By helping you to avoid knee-jerk reactions, acceptance improves your quality of life and that of those around you.

It increases your choices by helping you to pause long enough to see what those choices might be.

Mindfulness – awareness of the present moment – makes it easier to pause and to see things differently.

So try to build mindfulness and acceptance into your day – it will make a difference.

 

To learn more about acceptance and other aspects of mindfulness, do my online course Easy Mindfulness.

 

 


Padraig O'Morain

I have practised mindfulness since the late 1980s, have taught mindfulness throughout Ireland and in London and have had books on mindfulness published in several countries and languages. I have demonstrated mindfulness on RTE, ITV and TV3 (now Virgin). I provide courses online. My latest book is "Acceptance - Create Change and Move Forward." My aim is to make mindfulness easily accessible to people in their everyday lives.