CLICHÉ: Mindfulness is good. WHAT WE FORGET: A mindful person can choose. (But probably won’t.) If : mindfulness is observing your thoughts, and by observing your thoughts you remove the attachments to that thought; Then : a mindful person experiences thoughts as neither good nor bad. Which means: whenever a mindful person wants to experience …
CLICHÉ: Don’t worry about what other people think about you. WHAT WE FORGET: ‘Don’t worry,’ does not equal ‘Ignore.’ The important part here is, ‘Don’t worry.’ And because we forget that, we get confused about what might be a good thing to do with what other people think about us. Don’t worry about other people …
CLICHÉ: Just go with the flow. WHAT WE FORGET: To notice the flow. Go with the flow. If you consciously don’t want to go with the flow, then you are choosing to go against the flow. If you’re conscious about it, then you have determined that the flow is not the way it should be. …