The Here-and-Now Habit: How Mindfulness Can Help You Break Unhealthy Habits Once and for All by Hugh G. Byrne

Author:Hugh G. Byrne [Byrne, Hugh G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SEL031000 Self-help / Personal Growth / General
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Published: 2016-03-01T07:00:00+00:00

Cultivating Attitudes of Mindfulness—Summing Up

Mindfulness involves paying attention, but paying attention in a particular way. How you meet your experience is a key element of mindfulness. So are three qualities or attitudes you bring to your practice: kindness, curiosity, and acceptance. Together they’ll help you be present for your experience and counter your tendencies to move habitually toward what you like and resist what you don’t like.

Kindness will counter negative or judging patterns of thought and open space for you to be able to experience challenging sensations, emotions, and mind states. When you bring curiosity to your experience, you’ll no longer be swept up in or so identified with your experience. Being curious will allow you to step out of your mind’s story or narrative and into your direct experience. And acceptance will invite you to meet your experience wholeheartedly and without resistance. When you accept your experience fully, you’ll no longer be caught up in it or defined by it.

You can bring these attitudes to different kinds of habits, including habits of wanting, resisting, distraction, and doing. Any time you bring awareness to your experience, you change your relationship to it. When you meet habitual behaviors with friendliness, interest, and acceptance, their hold over you will tend to weaken, enabling you to abandon unwanted or unhealthy habits and cultivate more beneficial ones.

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