In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this space of becoming, we are subtly leaning forward into the future, trying to have security based on feeling that we can hold on, we can try to keep things from changing.