The Seven Key Elements to Mindfulness
Taken from About.com this is the seven key elements needed to achieve a state of Mindfulness. This list may help to explain the process of achieving complete Mindfulness.
The Seven Key Elements to Mindfulness by William Meek.
- Non-Judging: taking the role of an impartial observer to whatever your current experience is.
- Patience: cultivating the understanding that things must develop in their own time.
- Beginner’s Mind: having the willingness to observe the world as if it was your first time doing so. This creates an openness that is essential to being mindful.
- Trust: having trust in yourself, your intuition, and your abilities.
- Non-Striving: the state of not doing anything, just simply accepting that things are happening in the moment just as they are supposed to. For people from the Western countries like the Unites States, this seems to be one of the more difficult components.
- Acceptance: completely accepting the thoughts, feelings, sensations, and beliefs that you have, and understanding that they are simply those things only.
- Non-Attachment: avoidance of attaching meaning to thoughts and feelings, or connecting a given thought to a feeling. Instead, let a thought or feeling come in and pass without connecting it to anything, observing them exactly as they are.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
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April 18th, 2008 at 2:24 am
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September 9th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Just found these and yesterday I was wanting to describe the elements necessary for experiencing ‘flow’ and they are the same! Fascinating when through experience we arrive at the same place.
Lets stay in service.
Charlotte
October 30th, 2008 at 3:23 am
Enjoyed finding this blog about mindfulness. I have been searching for peace in my life and the discovery of mindfulness has put me in the right direction. I have developed a mindfulness tool in the form of a kit called the mindfulness tree which echos the process described in this article. It has helped me stay focus on the present and be grateful for what is in front of me. More info can be found on my web site journey-of-life.org
peace and light christina
April 27th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Great Blog! Many thanks!
Like you I am keen to demystify mindfulness and make it more accessible to people who have not tried it before, but would probably benefit from it.
I have just launched http://mindfulnet.org
Mindfulnet aims to provide “everything you need to know about mindfulness on one website”.
Mindfulnet contains pages on Mindfulness in the workplace, education, judicial system as well as medical and therapeutic. It also contains a very extensive list of Mindfulness research, Links, resources, case studies and books. It also includes a page of the neuroscience of mindfulness.
The website is independent and non secular. It’s been a bit of a labour of love so I am hoping it will be a valuable mindfulness resource. Do let me know what you think
Kind regards
Juliet