6. Do You Want To Stay The Same Forever?
"Awareness is the greatest agent of change." - Eckhart Tolle
When it comes to awareness quotes, Eckhart Tolle is another one that could fill up a book with meaningful bits of wisdom. And this one is important to remember if you don't want to be the same person with the same life and the same struggles five, ten, or twenty years from now.
If you want to change, then awareness is your biggest tool to do so. It helps you recognize what works and what doesn't. It helps you see what you truly want out of life and what you truly stand for in life, and then it forces you to do things to adjust your life to make it more of what you want.
I've found that you may make changes you never thought you would
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It's a guarantee that change will follow once you do.
7. Do You Want Inner Stillness?
"Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner stillness." - Eckhart Tolle
It's hard to be a wreck all the time. Feeling as if your life is chaotic and you are full of turmoil is tough. It makes for a bad day, year, and life. It causes stress on both the mind and the body, affects your relationships negatively, affects your career negatively, and - well, it affects your entire life negatively!
When you look at Eckhart Tolle, you get a sense of stillness. When you listen to him, you feel calm because he is calm. It's a great feeling, and it's even better when you can experience it in your day to day life.
Keep working on your awareness and you will find yourself feeling this sense of inner stillness more often. Keep making it an important part of your day, and you will be surprised at what
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For instance, reading a negative comment online that was said out of pure hate used to get me upset and cause my mind and body to feel chaotic and out of control. Blood boiling, increased heart rate, and racing thoughts would all instantly appear. But, now that I practice awareness, I can see these comments for what they are and many times they don't bother me. I've found myself being completely unaffected by certain comments simply because of awareness, and it's so nice to be still and move on to more important things.
8. Don't Get Overwhelmed By Personal Growth
"Cultivating inner awareness, introspection and reasoning can be more effective than meditation and prayer." - Dalai Lama
If you are looking for awareness quotes, then you are probably working on your personal growth. I know from experience that the more you look into personal growth, the more overwhelmed you can become.
As you read books and articles, take courses, and talk to other people working on their personal growth, you will get a ton of recommendations on what you SHOULD be doing, such as meditation, positive affirmations, increasing spiritual connection, developing better habits, being less judgmental, practicing kindness, and so much more. It can be overwhelming, to say the
... person and we choose our own destiny, we can't sit around and blame anyone if we feel depressed or if our lives seem a mess. We need to be strong and follow our dreams, quit acting stupid and change our behaviors by taking leaps and risks. It may be hard and scary at times but that's all part of life and we have to work for what we want. Dr. Laura Schlessinger states, "Once we muster the courage to take responsibility for our own problems and to tolerate the discomforts of risk, the possibilities for personal growth and joy are limitless (223).If you are prepared to hear the truth of how we let certain behaviors ruin our life and ready to make changes to them, than a good place for you to start would be by reading this book.
As human beings, we have free will. We have control of our lives and what we want to make of them. We must learn to see what is beyond our abilities to change and also what we must have the strength and perseverance to alter.
By reflecting on this and as I continue throughout my career, I concur with LTC Sewell’s article on self-awareness. As I continue to “understand, refine and often redefine” myself and improve articulating who I am to others, my aim is to improve myself, for the current and future organizations that may have the opportunity to be affiliated.
For many, change is a cause for ignorance. Most of us fear the idea of change. When one is faced to deal with c...
being able to respond to them. Those whom have practiced mindfulness are aware of its
Below each level is identified, along with tools and techniques to help one achieve their goals of mind shifting. The author himself has provided specific examples of his skills and experience as a change agent and innovator.
Psychotherapist and former Buddhist Monk Donald Altman once said, “If you truly want to change your life, you must first be willing to change your mind.” As research suggests, changing your mind can have drastic benefits for your personal health and well-being. Kabat-Zinn defines mindfulness as “the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding experience moment by moment.” (Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Context) “[T]he principles and practices associated with mindfulness have been applied within many of the world’s great spiritual or wisdom traditions for millennia, most notably in Buddhism.” (Dobkin and Hassed 9) In fact, it was a physician from the Rochester School
Throughout my live, my behavior towards change has evolved into a more mature acceptance of the inevitable. As an adolescent, I failed to contemplate the reasoning behind changes that occurred within my life. I neglected to seek the deeper meaning of why modifications were being implemented. However, as an adult, I consider the rationale and possible outcome of the change taking place. I have grown to realize that the success of each individual situation depends on the attitude it is approached it with (Blais & Hayes, 2011).
“If you are never open to change things will remain the same, thereby driving you insane.
It provides the necessary tools for you to be successful in listening to your inner self and in becoming more aware of the moment you are in without passing judgement on yourself or others. It is not a “one size fits all” book. It offers a variety of tips and techniques that even the worst skeptic of mindfulness may find beneficial. Authors: S.J. Scott & Barrie Davenport have produced this book in an instructive format. Each mindfulness step begins with the reasons why it is important and the benefits one may receive from practicing it.
At the beginning of my mindfulness journey, I felt frustrated as I began to realize how much I struggled with being in the present. I could not focus and I struggled to make it five minutes of practice. In the first two weeks, mindfulness felt like a chore. As I sat down to practice I would feel defeated each time. I did not really understand the point of mindfulness as focusing on breathing felt meaningless to me. My mind would wander each time I tried to focus on breathing and I began to realize how hard it was to still and control my mind. I knew that I was supposed to feel more relaxed and connected with my mind and body, but after each practice I felt more frustrated with myself. In the beginning I began to realize
understand that being proactive is one of the most powerful ways to ensure my success. One of the keys to my success is the ability to think about my own thought process. This is called self awareness, and this is the reason humanity can make significant advances from generation to generation. Self awareness allows me to evaluate and learn from my own experiences and the experiences of others. This is the key to making and breaking my habits. Only when I take how I see myself into account will I be able to access my full personal potential and my ability to relate to others. Thanks to self awareness, I can examine my paradigms and determine if they are based in reality. The key to being self aware is to reject the social mirror that feeds
Self-awareness is the first step in doing this. Where we apply our focus, emotions, reactions, personality, and behaviour determines our direction in life. If we’re self-aware, we can see where our thoughts and emotions are taking us and apply some control allowing us to change them as we go. Until we’re self-aware, we’ll struggle to make positive changes in the direction of our life. When we become self-aware, we understand all the judgments, opinions, thoughts, and beliefs that our mind deals with. We can then see how much this influences our emotions, though not always in a positive way. These emotional reactions are the things we can most easily change. Once we take fear out of the equation, and hence a lot of negative emotional baggage it becomes
I realised that self-awareness is important in achieving self-improvement. The more an individual understands themselves, the better he or she is at adapting life changes that is according to their needs. The more self-aware we are, it improves the level of confidence we have on oneselves. This can be achieved through greater exposure, thus widens one’s experiences and will be more likely be more accepting of others. Self-awareness will also benefit us to be more accurate in accessing
Ways I can improve my Spiritual health are thinking positive thoughts, smiling more often, look forward to the light at t he end of the tunnel, recalling happy memories, treating everyone fairly and trying my best to be a positive person.