Tag Archive for: effort

Cultivating Five Inner Strengths: Joyful Effort

Joyful effort is one of the five inner strengths - gladly showing up for our mindfulness practice, again and again, with a sense of freshness and upliftedness.

Cultivating Five Inner Strengths

The five inner strengths are interconnected beneficial qualities that steady the mind and support our mindfulness practice so we might live in closer alignment with our deepest values.

Practice Equals Pressure Plus Persistence

MAM teacher Shane Ledford discusses the importance of patience, persistence, and perseverance in the practice and teaching of mindfulness

Cultivating a Sustainable Practice

Here are some tips we give participants of 8-week courses to help them cultivate a sustainable mindfulness practice.

Non-Striving

Non-striving is one of the fundamental attitudes of mindfulness consciously cultivated during practice, according to Jon Kabat-Zinn.