What's not to love about discovering a short, meaningful article on mindfulness in a magazine like Business Insider? In this book excerpt author Cory Muscara concludes:
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth, freedom, and happiness." [likely a paraphrase of Rollo May from 1963]
The ability to respond in that space between something happening and our response to it is where we find freedom. It's where we can show ourselves a little more compassion when we're beating ourselves up. It's where we can decide to be a little less impulsive when we're about to say (or text) something we shouldn't. And when it comes right down to it, it's where we start to make meaningful changes in our life.Read the whole article here.