Albert Einstein Full Catastrophe Living Analysis

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My Thoughts on Einstein's Passage Recently in class, we read an article called Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn. In the article, Albert Einstein wrote a passage about explaining painful human experiences. When I first read the passage, my interpretation of Einstein's passage was that I believed that Einstein meant that he believes that our thoughts and emotions are the reasons that separate us from each other. I believed that our own personal emotions and thoughts is not allowing an individual's being able to be ourselves and being able to be who we are with others. Us, as individuals need to be able to see our inner beauty within each other and self without being blind by our own personal emotions. As an individual, we are so focused on our own thoughts and emotions from stopping us from doing what we want to do in life. Our emotions will always make a person think twice when a situation is approaching. We need to be able to see the beauty within ourselves and throughout the world. In the article, Full Catastrophe Living, Kabat-Zinn describes seven attitudes of Mindfulness, that were identified as Non-judging, Patience, Beginner's Mind, Trust, Non-Striving, Acceptance, and Letting go. When reading Einstein's passage, I was able to connect my …show more content…

Trust plays a huge role in an individual’s life. If a person is afraid to achieve his or her passion because of their emotions and thoughts, then one must be able to reach out to other individuals. Once we have reached out to other individuals, slowly we begin to trust that person to help us achieve step by step our inner and outer beauty. For the passage, the Rabbie felt a painful emotion and was not able to handle the emotions, yet he had the trust with Einstein to express his emotion, and helping him and his family copes with the emotion of his daughter’s death. A person can not express their feelings with anyone, only with people they

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