How to Sit (Mindfulness Essentials Book 1)

Bring your attention away from your head and down to your belly, so that you’re no longer thinking and imagining. Just follow your breathing closely.

sitting can produce the most nourishing calm and joy and we can all afford some time to sit. How wonderful to sit and do nothing.

Instead of “striking the bell,” I like to say “inviting the bell to sound.”

“Breathing in, I know that this is only an emotion. It’s not the whole of me. I am more than my emotions.”

Then, give yourself a few moments to breathe mindfully and calm your body. Speak to your inner child again, addressing the fears and anger. Let the child know you’ve been listening and that now you have grown up and can protect yourself so everything will be okay.

There is no separate self. We are a current. We are a stream. We are a continuation.

Sit in order to sit. Stand in order to stand. There is no goal or aim in sitting. Do it because it makes you happy.

All the mental formations exist in the unconscious mind as seeds. When a seed, for example the seed of anger, is touched, it manifests in the conscious mind and there we call it a mental formation.

What is getting in the way of your being able to experience the present moment? Keep breathing. Keep sitting. This is the practice.

Writing when your mind is clear after sitting can be very satisfying.