Mindful of Race by Ruth King

Author:Ruth King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sounds True

•For the next week, I will stop judging the media and notice what I feel in the absence of judging.

•For the next three months, I will only spend money if it is absolutely necessary and notice how it feels to want something without having it.

•For the next week, I will not offer advice unless I am asked.

•For the next two hours, I will allow myself to feel the pain in my lower back without hating that it is here.

Notice how the quality of your awareness is impacted through such a deliberate intention. Once you feel you have an understanding of your relationship with allowing and letting go, renounce another habit and give it your mindful attention.

Renouncing has a very real effect on the function of our brains. Every time we renounce cruelty, greed, righteousness, and hate, we strengthen neuropathways in the middle prefrontal cortex of the brain (for more information, see the discussion of the function of the prefrontal cortex in chapter 4).

By intentionally choosing restraint and knowing it directly, we do less harm to others and ourselves. We become less habituated, impulsive, and anxious because we know what we can do without. We become stronger, more stable, and more full of choice. Most important, we discover what our minds can endure and what our hearts can metabolize.

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