This paragraph is just going to be a thanks to the website I used for these meditation tips. I encourage you to go check it out! The link will be listed below. It is a great website and very inspiring! https://www.mindful.org/meditation/mindfulness-getting-started/

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. The goal of mindfulness is to wake up to the inner workings of our mental, emotional, and physical processes.

What is Meditation? Meditation is exploring. It’s a special place where each and every moment is momentous. Mindfulness meditation asks us to suspend judgment and unleash our natural curiosity about the workings of the mind, approaching our experience with warmth and kindness, to ourselves and others.

How to practice Mindfulness Meditation: Mindfulness is available to us in every moment, whether through meditations and body scans, or mindful moment practices like taking time to pause and breathe when the phone rings instead of rushing to answer it.

Watch this inspiring video about meditation! (VIDEO: “YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS”) Jon Kabat-Zinn, creator of the research-backed stress-reduction program Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, explains how mindfulness lights up parts of our brains that aren’t normally activated when we’re mindlessly running on autopilot.

Love hurts more than hate.

Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.

You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories from working with families there. Those stories stuck with me.

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I'm doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

I regret nothing.

Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a beautiful thing.

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

I look at scripts, and sometimes I apply theory to them. For 'Antiviral,' for example, I was reading Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' and it was all about the psychological process by which we fetishize the female image. It's all about scopophilia.

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.

I will take a serious approach to a subject usually treated lightly which is a nerdy thing to do.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.