(25) Mindfulness - Blank
The absence of a symbol reflects the calm clear nature of enlightened mind, attainable through meditative practice. You can train your mind to observe thoughts and feelings as they arise and learn your best way to let them go.
Thoughts need attention to survive - so consciously identify emotionally-draining stressful thoughts and turn off your attention! Focus on quietening your chattering monkey mind and serenity is the prize.
The Rune of Mindfulness oversees all the others because, ultimately, it is your mind which creates the choices and decisions relating to your mental health and quality of life.
You are now receiving a timely reminder that omnipresent Mindful Awareness is the path of spiritual progress. And you can take charge of your mind in a very positive way, if you choose so to do. This is the elegant proposal of mindfulness
meditation.
Being mindful means training yourself to become aware of your thoughts and reasoning processes. You do this by developing the ability to see your thoughts from the perspective of a non-judgemental outside observer. You label them 'thoughts' and 'let them go', while focusing on your breathing, a mantra or employing a personal thought-diversion experience.
With practice, you can detach from immediate emotionally-charged, possibly stressful (cortisol retaining), thoughts and impulsive reactions. Thereafter, with such attentive awareness, you are able to choose an appropriate course of action or deliberate non-action. This releases you from habitual cycles of poor decisions and unnecessary suffering.
Mindfulness has its origins in a form of Buddhist meditation which propounds that your mind is both the source of discontent causing your suffering and the source of your potential transformation to serenity and enlightened living.
Today mindfulness is being taught as a secular anti-stress practice for general well-being. It is also employed in clinical settings to help people with mental health problems, and in the workplace to encourage empathy and create
pleasant productive 'mindful' environments.
Whatever your issues, mind-training yourself to be aware of your thoughts and emotions will help you to think before you act, be skilful in your speech and discriminate without prejudice. You refrain from harmful actions and socially show kindness and compassion wherever they are needed. Your mind is calm and, whatever arises, you are at peace within.
This Rune is a member of The Inquiry Set encompassing attributes which require active curiosity, objective reasoning, the capacity to question yourself and mind-training.
"Unless our minds are stable and calm, no matter how comfortable our physical conditions may be, they will give us no pleasure. Therefore, the key to a happy life, now and in the future, is to develop a happy mind." HH The Dalai Lama
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You are now receiving a timely reminder that omnipresent Mindful Awareness is the path of spiritual progress. And you can take charge of your mind in a very positive way, if you choose so to do. This is the elegant proposal of mindfulness meditation.
Being mindful means training yourself to become aware of your thoughts and reasoning processes. You do this by developing the ability to see your thoughts from the perspective of a non-judgemental outside observer. You label them 'thoughts' and 'let them go', while focusing on your breathing, a mantra or employing a personal thought-diversion experience.
With practice, you can detach from immediate emotionally-charged, possibly stressful (cortisol retaining), thoughts and impulsive reactions. Thereafter, with such attentive awareness, you are able to choose an appropriate course of action or deliberate non-action. This releases you from habitual cycles of poor decisions and unnecessary suffering.
Mindfulness has its origins in a form of Buddhist meditation which propounds that your mind is both the source of discontent causing your suffering and the source of your potential transformation to serenity and enlightened living.
Today mindfulness is being taught as a secular anti-stress practice for general well-being. It is also employed in clinical settings to help people with mental health problems, and in the workplace to encourage empathy and create pleasant productive 'mindful' environments.
Whatever your issues, mind-training yourself to be aware of your thoughts and emotions will help you to think before you act, be skilful in your speech and discriminate without prejudice. You refrain from harmful actions and socially show kindness and compassion wherever they are needed. Your mind is calm and, whatever arises, you are at peace within.
This Rune is a member of The Inquiry Set encompassing attributes which require active curiosity, objective reasoning, the capacity to question yourself and mind-training.
"Unless our minds are stable and calm, no matter how comfortable our physical conditions may be, they will give us no pleasure. Therefore, the key to a happy life, now and in the future, is to develop a happy mind." HH The Dalai Lama
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