because we've got ideas and opinions about everything

likes and dislikes

but what awareness does is, it doesn't say, okay, no judging

that's not what mindfullness is about

it's about welcoming the judging and holding that in awareness and

seeing how caught up we are, in our own likes and dislikes

how driven we are, by that kind of

impulse to clinging and to grasp and to self-identify, or

if you don't like it, if it's aversive, push it away, I hate this, I don't want this

this is frightening

and then who suffers? who suffers from that?

We suffer, we suffer if we cling, we suffer if we recoil

so, if this is about liberation from suffering

the only thing that can actually liberate us from our own delusion and our own craziness

and our own fear ,and our own lack of comfort in our own skin,

is this essence of being, that is already okay

it's not like the people who come to our clinic with cancer and heart disease and chronic pain and everything

they have all these major diseases and disorders

but we're not trying to take it away from them or fix it,

we're inviting them to put out the welcome mat for the full dimensionality of their experience,

befriend how it is in the body

even if that's the last place you wanna go

to turn towards the intensity of the pain in the body or in the heart

and to embrace it.

and when you do that, things shift

and very often the very body as well as the brain, and as well as the bones, as well as the skin

has its ear to the rail and

it starts to shift because we're one unified biological whole

we're an organism

and so when we align in a certain way with mindfulness

there's a way in which the physiology follows

now studies are coming out now that are showing that in eight weeks of training with MBSR

we have morphological changes

in all sort of brain regions

not just activity changes in the prefrontal cortex,

but actually morphological thickening in regions of the hippocampus

which is involved in learning and memory and also various other regions of the brain

that altogether actually collaborate

in allowing us to navigate our life and make wise, discerning decisions

about what's valuable, what's not valuable

what's gonna cause more pain, what's gonna cause more suffering, what's gonna cause greater happiness

and then to navigate that kind of way

so the research is pointing very much in that direction

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