That line, I don’t have to believe everything I think, jumped out at me from Elisha Goldstein’s 2010 post on PsychCentral’s Mindfulness & Psychotherapy blog, and it still holds true. Goldstein writes about a correspondent who, in the past, used […]
Like me, you probably have one or two things coming up today and tomorrow that you’d rather not have to deal with. Maybe they’re boring or maybe they just create a bit of anxiety. If you’re a person who puts […]
“We have a strong need to be on the way to some better moment, some better time when it all will come together for me. We can so easily become impatient and driven. Of course, this prevents us from being […]
We are often urged to practise gratitude to improve our well-being?
I once noticed that I felt happy when I was walking through the rain on a cold autumn day. That’s illogical – I don’t like cold rain – but I accepted it as a mysterious bonus and enjoyed the happiness. The experience taught me that when I’m in a good mood it’s probably not because life got better; when I’m in a low mood it’s probably not because life got worse.
We get lost in thoughts which repeat fears, anxieties, regrets and resentments. Very often these concern issues we can no longer do anything about because they are in the past or because they haven’t yet happened. In mindfulness we try to get good at coming out of this painful mind-wandering whenever we notice we are lost in it.
Snowballing means thinking one negative after another until a problem seems overwhelming. Read three questions that are better than snowballing.
In practising mindfulness we learn to take our thoughts less seriously. That can seem strange if you’re used to seeing your thoughts as always right and some people do, indeed, see them that way. But ur thoughts are often less […]
A key mindfulness approach is to pay more attention to the present moment and less to the stories about the past or the future that our mind wants to tell us.
