Whether it’s pain and suffering or joy and happiness; your awareness of sensations, thoughts and feelings is different from the sensations, the thoughts and the feelings themselves. The ”awareness” part of you is not ruled by the likes and dislikes, ideas and opinions, or choices and refusals. Your goal is to step back from all sensations as a non-judgmental observer, separating the thoughts and feelings from the awareness of the knower.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Thirty)Judging: can lead to a day filled with pain.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-nine)The Welcoming Prayer: focus and sink in; welcome; and let go
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-eight)Sorrow: sometimes it is this that awakens us!
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-seven) Which Will You Follow: The path of fear or the path of love?
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-six) Delusions of Separateness : we are part of a larger whole, interconnected to all things.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-five) Fear : lies at the root of all trouble
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-four) Nowness : the only thing we really have is now.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-three)Unity : relationship is the essence of existence.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-one) Mystic Experience : an experience of communion with Ultimate Reality