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Meditate To Reduce Unnecessary Suffering
- Use meditation to reduce unnecessary suffering and increase well-being by practicing regularly.
- Approach meditation as a tool for both stress reduction and first-person exploration of the mind.
Unsatisfactoriness Comes From Impermanence
- Experience is unsatisfactory largely because it's impermanent and we keep chasing future gratifications.
- Mindfulness exposes this unsatisfactory quality and builds equanimity toward changing experience.
Reframe Anxiety And Practice The Behavior
- Use cognitive reappraisal alongside mindfulness to reframe anxiety as excitement when appropriate.
- Combine mindfulness with exposure and practice to extinguish long-term fear more effectively.