The practice of mindfulness ranges far and wide and deep within the psyche and the heart. As a liberative practice, it calls us to face and honor the root causes of our individual and collectve anguish and suffering, and to observe them carefully as they work on us. For one thing, it asks us to be willing to observe what actually moves us, the root meaning of emotion, and to learn to stand inside of our feelings in ways that allow us to tap their power to teach and to heal and catalyze growth, and not simply to react and be chronically overwhelmed and imprisoned.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, "Foreword," in Saki Santorelly, Heal Thy Self, xxii.
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