Mindfulness Is Not Supposed To Be Perfect

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First she began to give an examples about un realistic standard of perfection and about how people can easily judge themselves,and she said that we are not supposed to be perfect, because perfection isnt possible but transformation is all we needed to change,to learn,to grow no matter what our circumstances. She had been studied about how people change,and how people transform and the most effective one vehicles she found was mindfulness. She told that she had been surgery and it took a metal rod to put in her spine. After couple of month she spent to rehabilitation and it didnt work,she decided to go to thailand and to try meditate there. The meditation tool place at the monastery. Because of she didnt speaks thai she began to follow the instruction to take a breath and let it out. …show more content…
It made she to start judge herself and she started judge everyone even the monks. Fortunately there was a monk from london said that she wasnt practicing mindfulness but she was practicing judgement and patience frustration and the then he said five word to her "what you practice grows stronger and she actually found the meaning. The monk told if you meditating with judgement just growing judgement,meditating of frustation would be growing frustration so the key is mindfulness. After she came back and began to study about the effect of mindfulness,and from the data showed two keys thing,first mindfulness is good for us and second is underlying sense like "I'm not good" or anything else is tremendous self-judgement and shame it would ban people to

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