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1 " Making sense of a past that made no sense is opening to the sensations of the past and putting them together now to see how they impacted you then, and how you can free yourself to live the life you want now. That’s why making sense makes so much integrative sense. We cannot change the past, but we can change how we understand the way it has impacted us and how we liberate ourselves in the present to free ourselves for the future. "
― Daniel J. Siegel , Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence--A Complete Guide to the Groundbreaking Wheel of Awareness Meditation Practice
2 " Mental presence is a state of being wide awake and receptive to what is happening, as it is happening in the moment, within us and between the world and us. Presence cultivates happiness. "
3 " Feelings are not a side component of a life well lived; they are essential ways we live as a whole, embodied being. "
4 " What you practice with intention creates a repeated state that will then become a trait that can work in the background without your effort or conscious energy. "
5 " Having an awakened mind means using the mental processes of attention, awareness, and intention to activate new states of mind that, with repeated practice, can become intentionally sculpted traits in a person’s life. "
6 " Nature is far more inventive than is human imagination, and the microscopic world is not what Niels Bohr or anyone else could have guessed. "
7 " We will honor the controversy, and explore possibilities rather than assert absolutes. "
8 " You can be grateful for what you enjoy, not longing for what you are missing. "
9 " being more open and letting go of judgment and anticipation expands our awareness of all the vicissitudes of life. "
10 " my behavior is no longer under my conscious control. "
11 " Learning this skill of distinguishing awareness from that which you are aware of will enable you to expand the container of consciousness and empower you to “taste” so much more than just a salty glass of water. "
12 " With practice, you’ll be enriching not only your attentional skills, but your experience of consciousness and of the mind itself. "
13 " When that trait is an integrated mind, this means that we can move from automatic reactivity without choice to the freedom of responsiveness with choice. "
14 " And for those with an enlarged amygdala, which is involved in excessive emotional reactivity, mind training leads to a decrease in this overly differentiated neural node of our emotional life. "
15 " Sit. Feast on your life. "
16 " A key issue in the brain’s memory system is that when retrieved from storage, pure implicit memory is not tagged as being from the past. "
17 " Bohr’s idea was that we have to change our idea of understanding the world into an idea of understanding our relation with the world.”* "
18 " A third finding from quantum physics is that entanglement, as mentioned earlier, has been established as a real, empirically proven aspect of our world. "
19 " Studies using meditative interventions had found that training the mind in these ways of focused attention, open awareness, and kind intention could have many benefits, among them not only the reduction of the subjective experience of pain but also an objective diminishment of the representation of pain within the brain. "
20 " How intention glows determines where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural and interpersonal connection grow. "