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Understanding Mindfulness

Mindfulness is attention to the present moment held with a particular attitude — non-judging, patience, beginner's mind, trust, non-striving, acceptance, and letting go.

Psych-ed10 minMAXtext or voice

How it works

Most people who conclude they cannot meditate are working from the wrong definition: they expect an empty mind and see a wandering one as failure. Non-striving is the foundation that resolves this. The tool goes through all seven and is worth reading before any of the longer sitting practices in the catalog.

Grounded in

the seven attitudinal foundations, Jon Kabat-Zinn.

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