A lot of mindfulness practices are designed in such a way as to reflect to us our attachments and aversions; what we try to hold onto and what we try to avoid.
The notion is, that when we are driven, consciously or unconsciously by our grasping or aversion, we are constantly at the mercy of external circumstances. Trying to get things and experiences that make us feel good or avoid ones that don’t.
With inner freedom, our happiness comes from a deeper place; the seat of our self, rather than what we might gain or lose around it.
When we listen and follow more of our integrity, our inner knowing, higher conscience and sense of rightness and truth, there is little choice.
When we surrender within this, we generate a clarity of inner guidance and direction.
We can free ourselves from mental conflict and can open more to the space and joy beyond mind.
RATNA DYER 