The Power of Mindfulness, Applications, and Benefits of Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a great tool for practising the observation of your thoughts and strengthening that mental muscle that allows you to notice a thought and choose not to stick to it, but to let it pass, making a deliberate choice about where to focus your attention.
Dr Julie Smith • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The Sunday Times bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold
mindfulness is nothing more than awareness of context, as well as awareness of variability or alterations in that context. If you’re mindless, then you don’t notice nuance. You assume everything is black and white. You assume the rules in one environment are the same as the rules in another.
Benjamin Hardy • Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
When this mindfulness is prolonged by using proper techniques, you find that this experience is profound and that it changes your entire view of the universe. This state of perception has to be learned, however, and it takes regular practice. Once you learn the technique, you will find that mindfulness has many interesting aspects.
Henepola Gunaratana • Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition
Mindfulness involves a determined effort to observe and accept your physical discomfort and your agitated emotions, moment by moment.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
Although the shift did not happen that quickly, there is certainly evidence to suggest that the role of mindfulness within psychological treatment is here to stay and will only increase as times goes on.
Lynn Rossy • Mindfulness: More Than Just a New Technique
There is now a large literature on the psychological benefits of meditation. Different techniques produce long-lasting changes in attention, emotion, cognition, and pain perception, and these correlate with both structural and functional changes in the brain.