we'll have judgments, you know, endlessly
because we've got ideas and opinions about everything
likes and dislikes
but what awareness does is, it doesn't say, okay, no judging
that's not what mindfullness is about
it's about welcoming the judging and holding that in awareness and
seeing how caught up we are, in our own likes and dislikes
how driven we are, by that kind of
impulse to clinging and to grasp and to self-identify, or
if you don't like it, if it's aversive, push it away, I hate this, I don't want this
this is frightening
and then who suffers? who suffers from that?
We suffer, we suffer if we cling, we suffer if we recoil
so, if this is about liberation from suffering
the only thing that can actually liberate us from our own delusion and our own craziness
and our own fear ,and our own lack of comfort in our own skin,
is this essence of being, that is already okay
it's not like the people who come to our clinic with cancer and heart disease and chronic pain and everything
they have all these major diseases and disorders
but we're not trying to take it away from them or fix it,
we're inviting them to put out the welcome mat for the full dimensionality of their experience,
befriend how it is in the body
even if that's the last place you wanna go
to turn towards the intensity of the pain in the body or in the heart
and to embrace it.
and when you do that, things shift
and very often the very body as well as the brain, and as well as the bones, as well as the skin
has its ear to the rail and
it starts to shift because we're one unified biological whole
we're an organism
and so when we align in a certain way with mindfulness
there's a way in which the physiology follows
now studies are coming out now that are showing that in eight weeks of training with MBSR
we have morphological changes
in all sort of brain regions
not just activity changes in the prefrontal cortex,
but actually morphological thickening in regions of the hippocampus
which is involved in learning and memory and also various other regions of the brain
that altogether actually collaborate
in allowing us to navigate our life and make wise, discerning decisions
about what's valuable, what's not valuable
what's gonna cause more pain, what's gonna cause more suffering, what's gonna cause greater happiness
and then to navigate that kind of way
so the research is pointing very much in that direction
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