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As Long As You Are Breathing, There Is More Right With You Than There Is Wrong, No Matter How Ill Or How Hopeless You May Feel. But If You Hope To Mobilize Your Inner Capacities For Growth And For Healing And To Take Charge In Your Life On A New Level, A Certain Kind Of Effort And Energy On Your Part Will Be Required.... It Will Take Conscious Effort On Your Part To Move In A Direction Of Healing And Inner Peace. This Means Learning To Work With The Very Stress And Pain That Is Causing You To Suffer.

Mindfulness Means Moment-to-moment, Non-judgmental Awareness. It Is Cultivated By Refining Our Capacity To Pay Attention, Intentionally, In The Present Moment, And Then Sustaining That Attention Over Time As Best We Can. In The Process, We Become More In Touch With Our Life As It Is Unfolding.

It Is Remarkable How Liberating It Feels To Be Able To See That Your Thoughts Are Just Thoughts And That They Are Not 'you' Or 'reality.' For Instance, If You Have The Thought That You Have To Get A Certain Number Of Things Done Today And You Don't Recognize It As A Thought But Act As If It's The 'the Truth,' Then You Have Created A Reality In That Moment In Which You Really Believe That Those Things Must All Be Done Today.

The Only Time You Ever Have In Which To Learn Anything Or See Anything Or Feel Anything, Or Express Any Feeling Or Emotion, Or Respond To An Event, Or Grow, Or Heal, Is This Moment, Because This Is The Only Moment Any Of Us Ever Gets. You're Only Here Now; You're Only Alive In This Moment.

No One Can Listen To Your Body For You... To Grow And Heal, You Have To Take Responsibility For Listening To It Yourself.