What is the Mindful Mountain Wellness Way?

The mind is constantly working in two separate ways. One part of the brain, the conscious brain, involves thoughts, feelings, and actions that occur within our awareness. The other part of the brain, the subconscious, involves thoughts, feelings, and actions that are involuntary and surface automatically. Mindfulness practice helps us slow down in each detail to bring awareness to the subconscious mind, giving us a greater understanding and an ability to direct subconscious processes with intention and purpose.

Mindfulness teaches us not to struggle to have control over our mind but rather welcome all processes through observance, nourishing those that are good for our general well-being, serving function; and then gently letting go of those thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are sabotaging and destructive. When we can let go of the physics of struggle and control that occupy distracted resistance keeping us stuck, we can actively direct our mind towards specific goals without force, creating an ability to gradually build one small piece at a time and move forward masterfully with ease.

This process helps us to appreciate our experiences, moment by moment, with an ability to connect to each experience as it unfolds and confidently take what is helpful and leave what is not.

Practicing mindfulness at first glance seems to produce many contradictions in terms. Letting go of control and striving so that one may become more aware and directive in their attention with intention? The idea is that when we are able to let go of control we can then let go of the process of creating harmful projections of what the future might be. That perpeutuates an internal struggle within the mind, taking a person out of the present moment’s ability to connect. Connection in the moment is powerful.

Those that can stay present in the moment can solve problems, create masterful visions, and lead others through example of concentrated nourishment, reducing the time spent on wasteful, unproductive thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Moving forward, slowly, deliberately, and with pupose takes non striving to great achievement.