We often treat the mind as if it were a machine that should obey our intentions. But the mind is more like a living ecosystem. We cannot control it through force or willpower. We learn to influence it by paying close attention to how it unfolds, moment by moment. In that sense, mindfulness is not simply a practice of awareness. It is the way we learn to work with the living processes that shape thought, emotion, behavior, and change.
Here are some articles defining proactive mindfulness.
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This article puts screen addiction within a larger context and draws practical conclusions. The environment in which human attention evolved has changed so dramatically that mindfulness is becoming an essential human capacity rather than an optional spiritual practice.
Serge Prengel and Bruce Nayowith explore the power of mindful human connections and their vital role in personal growth.
Engagement in everyday life involves being present in the moment. Here is a simple, down-to-earth example of how it works in everyday life.
Explore why embodied presence improves mindful engagement in everyday life and how to cultivate it.
In this video, people reflect on their inner experience when they have difficulty engaging compared to when they can engage more.
I share here what has shaped my understanding of what I now call Proactive Mindfulness.
This article describes how the Polyvagal Theory gives us an embodied and relational perspective on mindfulness.
The following videos describe relational mindfulness in simple terms.
A koan is something that brings you to the very edge of logical reasoning. Here I describe how it works with life koans, then talk about visual koans.
I use the metaphor of a safecracker to describe how we can turn insight into action.
The phrase implicit relational knowing was first used to describe the way babies know how to watch and respond to their mothers.
The interaction (the circumstances) shapes you. Sensing into your bodily experience puts you in touch with the bottom-up response of your organism.
