MINDFULL ATTENTION , RECOGNITION AND ACCEPTANCE [MENTAL HEALTH]ARTICLE 1,2

Article 1

Given that your attention is such a powerful source for activating your body, learning to recognize how your attention moves in your mind is very important.

The important thing is that although our attention is physiologically very powerful, we often don’t have much control over it .

RECOGNITION AND ACCEPTANCE

When feelings and thoughts arise , we sometimes try to push them away and avoid them , or we might ruminate about how to get rid of them. This inevitably causes more upset . So it is important that we compassionately recognize that much of what goes on in our brains is to do with the way they have been constructed by evolution and life’s circumstances .

Really what you are observing is ‘ nature’s mind. ‘ Supposing you have the thought ,’ I really hate that person because they were so unkind to me.’ ‘Well’, you could…