Jon Kabat-Zinn: The Mindfulness Revolution
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
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The Power of Awareness
Awareness is not something that people have never heard of you know it's like oh awareness what's the big deal. We are brought up as your question implies kind of so involved in thinking and so much our educational system is so aimed at getting us to be really good conceptual thinkers we've just put all our eggs in that basket with no training in awareness. Awareness can supply a whole new dimension to how we would actually be in relationship to that thought or to the emotion that often goes along with so many of our thoughts. That gives us what I call new degrees of freedom for actually being able to make better use of our creativity and imagination but at the same time not become prisoners or slaves
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