Thursday 13 September 2012
#185 We underestimate our innate capacities
“The
challenge is, can we live more consciously? In a sense, mindfulness and
mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) are really about the art of conscious
living. … Our work in MBSR is based on the conviction that … we have infinitely
more capacity and dimensions – and I emphasize the plural – that we usually
simply ignore. Even the educational system emphasizes only certain aspects of
development, such as critical thinking, but it doesn’t emphasize somatic
experience or intuitive experience or the cultivation of compassion or, for
that matter, self-compassion or empathy and all sorts of other aspects of being
human – including perhaps the most fundamental of all – awareness itself, which
is an innate capacity we share by virtue of being human.” Jon Kabat-Zinn
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