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Each moment is an opportunity to experience who you believe you areAnd an opening to discover who you really are by Dr. Phil BlusteinApril 18, 2025
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We create a sense of self moment to moment as a defensive reactive action to meet unmet psychological needs in order to feel safe, loved and worthy. Typically we rest in identification with the sense of self. Self appropriates awareness and not only are we the object...
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Is having a sense of self a bad thing? Can it exist? I am here typing and it seems that there is an entity that is doing that, that is me! When people talk about no self or not self in contemplative practice it can be confusing and may immediatey create resistance and...
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The contemporary understanding of mindfulness is reflected in Jon Kabat-Zinn’s definition: Paying attention, in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, nonjudgmentally Being non-judgmental is important but it is only one step in a broader practice...
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Historic mindfulness was much more than the contemporary understanding of mindfulness as awareness and being non-judgmental. There was a REFRAIN after each of the mindfulness practices that indicated one contemplates the body (feelings, mind and dhammas): *... 
