This dissertation explores the role of present-moment awareness in psychological healing and transformation through the lens of non-dual contemplative practice and its intersection with psychotherapy.
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- For all its chilled-out associations, the attempt to be here now is therefore still another instrumentalist attempt to use the present moment purely as a means to an end, in an effort to feel in control of your unfolding time. As usual, it doesn’t work. The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be “more in the moment” i... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Alex Wittenberg added
- For all its chilled-out associations, the attempt to be here now is therefore still another instrumentalist attempt to use the present moment purely as a means to an end, in an effort to feel in control of your unfolding time. As usual, it doesn’t work. The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be “more in the moment” i... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Alex Wittenberg and added
- Find ways to bring more and more of yourself into loving awareness. Every detail of your being. The ones you like, and the ones you don’t. Especially the ones you don’t, especially the parts that most repulse you. You know, loving awareness—even if you haven’t heard the phrase before, you know what it is. Those moments of spacious, calm, thorough, ... See more
from How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, Or, I Demand Deep Okayness for Everyone by Sasha Chapin
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