How An Expanded Perspective Changes Your Life

The #1 key to mindfulness is just recognizing without judging. You must see things with an expanded point of view. When thoughts come into your mind; good or bad, just recognize without judging. If you feel sad, say I am sad, if you feel happy, say I am happy, and do this with any feeling or thought. Your thoughts and feelings are everything because everything is connected. Everything needs everything else to survive. You need good thoughts and bad thoughts to survive. This is part of seeing things from an expanded point of view, when we have bad feelings or thoughts everything shrinks down and we are so focused on a certain feeling on a certain situation. When in reality, it’s probably not all that important. Just observe your mind, thoughts, and feelings.

Another part of seeing things from an expanded perspective is recognizing that life is not out to get you. Your thoughts and feelings are not out to get you, people are not out to get you. When we feel alone or sad or mad we feel that nobody is here to help us and that the only way to solve that is to punish those that made us feel this way. Even just thinking to yourself that they are a bad person, they didn’t mean to cause pain. That doesn’t mean you can’t feel pain, but you shouldn’t feel like other people are out to get you, they experience just as much if not more pain than you do.

Another part of mindfulness is realizing that people need compassion. You suffer less when those around you suffer less and you can help those around you suffer less by being compassionate. Listening to people, actually listening to what people have to say make a huge difference in your relationships. Be a peacemaker and a compassionate listener instead of immediately wanting to say something bad to or about a person. People need compassion to help with their suffering. Being compassionate helps with your suffering as well as mindful breathing and mindful walking.

This is a short and simple message, because mindfulness is short and simple.