Here’s an excerpt from Phillip Moffitt’s book Emotional Chaos to Clarity about how to relate to difficulty in your life such that you relieve yourself of unnecessary suffering and even find a sense of well-being during times of challenge.
Even in the best of times, life is challenging, and often it is difficult. In this book, Phillip Moffitt explores the core Buddhist teaching of the Four Noble Truths. He uses these principles to guide readers to a more meaningful relationship to the inevitable suffering of life and shows how to find joy and peace regardless of your circumstances.
An excerpt from Phillip Moffitt’s book Dancing with Life.
Bringing mindfulness to the longings and impulses that lead you to make major life changes provides a method for consciously and skillfully working with the complexity of moving in new directions in your life.
Practicing mindfulness can bring more clarity into your life and diminish the amount of suffering you experience. In this one-minute video, Phillip Moffitt gives a very clear explanation of what mindfulness is and how you will benefit from it.
A five-minute guided meditation to help you come into the present moment.
Just as we have outer priorities in our lives that guide us in our decision-making and setting goals, we have inner priorities, too. The values that we live by can be considered our inner priorities and they guide us in how we implement our outer priorities. These are ten values particularly beneficial to developing an enduring sense of well-being.
A crucial skill for minimizing emotional chaos and sustaining clarity in your life is the ability to distinguish between your experience and your interpretation of your experience.
For most people, learning to move from a reactive mind state to a responsive mind state is the single most helpful tool to reduce suffering and increase well-being. See if this practice can make a difference in your life.
Applying mindfulness to decision making leads to clearer thinking and to staying connected to your core values, which is crucial to your peace of mind. Mindful decision-making enables you to go beneath the surface level of your moment-to-moment life experience, which is clouded with emotions, to see the truth of what is happening.