Recognizing the Suffering in Your Own Life
An excerpt from Phillip Moffitt’s book Dancing with Life.
An excerpt from Phillip Moffitt’s book Dancing with Life.
Here is a personal assessment designed to develop your capacity for making skillful change. The more you understand your habits and beliefs about change, the more you will be empowered during times of change.
Understanding the difference between pressure and stress can create a greater sense of ease and well-being in your life.
When your responsibilities are bearing down on you, understanding the difference between pressure and stress can create a greater sense of ease and well-being in your life.
Applying mindfulness to decision making leads to clearer thinking and to staying connected to your core values, which is crucial to your peace of mind. Mindful decision-making enables you to go beneath the surface level of your moment-to-moment life experience, which is clouded with emotions, to see the truth of what is happening.
It is difficult living in a time of fear, but here you are, and the challenge becomes finding a way not to be consumed by it. This is best accomplished by first observing your responses to the culture of fear that surrounds you. You can then use this knowledge to work with your personal fears.