Urban Mindfulness - Finding Peace in the Middle of It All » unknown http://urbanmindfulness.org Urban Mindfulness provides resources for practice of mindfulness and meditation, specifically relevant to the experiences, opportunities, and challenges associated with city living Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:21:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Scared of Change? http://urbanmindfulness.org/2010/02/scared-of-change/ http://urbanmindfulness.org/2010/02/scared-of-change/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:34:03 +0000 admin http://urbanmindfulness.org/?p=180 Submitted by Irene Javors, LMHC

“The unknown takes us out of our comfort zone.”

From What About The Big Stuff?, Richard Carlson, Ph.D. Hyperion, 2002, p.20.

Whatever change that either happens to us or we willingly undertake always has an element of fear. We love our habits of being. Even taking a shower at a different time of the day has the potential of upsetting our routinized life. Change wakes us up to living in the fullness of the moment. Staying mindful of how we enslave ourselves to old ways of being and doing is the challenge. Nothing stands still, no matter how we delude ourselves into thinking that we have the power to make it otherwise.

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