Many people who struggle with mindfulness benefit from using visual images that quiet inner chatter. Try imagining seeing rays of sun shining on you through the leaves of a tree warming your face.

Rays of sun

Many people who struggle with mindfulness benefit from using visual images that quiet inner chatter. Try imagining seeing rays of sunshine shining on you through the leaves of a tree warming your face.

Use visual images to create a new mood. Imagine lying on your back on a green field, watching the sunrise over a green mountain. Do you feel hopeful, bright, accepting, or connected to the world?

Connected to the world

What if you practiced what Tibetan master Tsoknyi Rinpoche calls "Short moments many times"? Even if it’s a brief pause, you can press the reset button, by small chunks of living in the now.

Short moments

What if you practiced what Tibetan master, so many reimbouche calls short moments many times. Even if it's a brief pause, you can press the reset button by small chunks of living in the now.

If you are feeling out of control, imagine yourself in a car at the driver’s wheel, with your foot on the brake, in control and ready to stop as needed.

Foot on the brake

If you are feeling out of control, imagine yourself in a car at the driver's wheel and have your foot on the brake in control and ready to stop as needed.

Rays of sun

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