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Mindfulness is better than chocolate : A practical Guide to Enhanced Focus and Lasting Happiness in a World of Distractions QUOTES

Mindfulness is better than chocolate : A practical Guide to Enhanced Focus and Lasting Happiness in a World of Distractions QUOTES

1 " Regular meditation enhances our ability to be mindful.

Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. We'll all experience loss, grief and heartache at some point. But whether or not we keep dwelling on it and torturing ourselves with it is something in which we have a choice - although it may not feel that way at the time.

It's not our circumstances that make us happy or unhappy, it's whether or not they are an authentic reflection of what matters to us.

Your mind is brighter, lighter and clearer in a clean and tidy environment.

Speed, distraction and instant gratification are the enemies of nearly everything that matters most in our lives.

If you typically wake up feeling resentful about having to get out of bed, go to a job you dislike, or undertake disagreeable tasks, you're immediately setting yourself up for unhappiness.

Every day most of us do sensuously enjoyable things. Ironically we rob ourselves of the full pleasure of our sensuous enjoyments because our minds are elsewhere. Most people already possess the causes for many pleasures, but don't stop to enjoy them.

If our purpose in life is to be happy, before looking for new causes of happiness, it makes sense first to identify the happiness-creating experiences we already have in our lives and to leverage them using mindfulness.

The real voyage of discovery exists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Regular meditation practice is the foundation for a calmer, more insightful and contented experience of reality.

The self-inflicted pain of attachment: the inability or unwillingness to step away from a spiral of negative interpretations, beliefs and emotions.

Exploring your own mind may very well be the most valuable, surprising and liberating undertaking of your life.

When we change our mind, we change our reality. "

― David Michie , Mindfulness is better than chocolate : A practical Guide to Enhanced Focus and Lasting Happiness in a World of Distractions