"The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, "
"Rather, profound and lasting change usually involves taking some kind of action— what, in this book, we call practice. It is in this work, done day by day, that 99 percent of the learning in MBCT goes on. Inner transformation depends on a continuing back-and-forth dance between understanding, practi"
"The STRUCTURE means that you have in your hand a map that will guide you day by day along the path of change. The itinerary for each day’s journey is spelled out in detail. Once you have made an initial commitment to follow the path, you can simply relax into what is there to be done for that day, f"
"If you carefully investigate how you relate to unpleasant feelings, you will see that there are two crucial steps: Step 1: an unpleasant feeling arises; Step 2: your mind reacts to the unpleasant feeling by trying, in one way or another, to avoid experiencing the feeling or the thing that caused the"
"Our emotional reactions reflect the interpretations we give to situations rather than the situations themselves."
"The thoughts are our interpretations, the conclusions we draw, often based on preconceived notions and prior experiences, and so they are shaped by a lot of different influences."