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Except that it's not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. It's a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic depends upon comparison, and when we are fully aware in the present moment, when there is no past or future in our mind's awareness, there is nothing to compare. There is only what is, as it is. The inner critic disappears.

Jan Chozen Bays

When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.

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We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

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Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.

Jan Chozen Bays