Mindfulness as Medicine: A Story of Healing Body and Spirit

Similarly, you can feel joy in the anticipation of meeting or seeing someone. Once you are established in deep connection with that person, you can simply be in the same space, sitting next to each other, without the need to say or to do anything.

Harmony is first of all for the sake of our own body and mind.

Suddenly, I gained an insight—that it is our attachments, hatreds, and closed views that imprison us as hungry ghosts, preventing us from going forward and living in the happiness that is available.

As these mistakes arose more frequently, the surge of frustration or despair also intensified. I came back to my breathing to calm the waves of emotion and patiently corrected myself each time. It was thanks to mindfulness that I was able to detect these symptoms early.

“Help me to live in harmony with you. Help me to have no fear and to take care of you inside of me,” and that became a practice for me.

It’s like eating a cookie. If you eat it all at once, it’s gone. However, if you take time to concentrate and look at the cookie, smell it, take a small bite, enjoy the taste and sensation in your mouth, and then look at it as a child would look at the sky or smile at a butterfly, before you slowly take another bite, you can truly appreciate it and

I discovered that whatever weakness we have as our baseline will become even weaker when we’re sick.

In true love, we must have trust and confidence in each other. This is a practice not of spontaneous feeling, but of concrete daily observations of ourselves and of each other.

years. He shared with us that when he walks from his office to his secretary’s office or to a meeting room, he sings silently to himself, “Breathing, smiling. Walking, happy.” “Breathing, smiling. Walking, happy.”