Without direct experience, the impact of habitual mindfulness practice seems too simple to be beneficial.

“Mindfulness is about stepping outside yourself, looking at yourself, and knowing that it’s going to be okay.”

Dr. Jeffrey Smith

"You don't have to analyze it. You just have to feel it." 

Dan Harris

Mindfulness involves cultivating familiarity and intimacy with aspects of everyday experience that we often take for granted.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Thinking your way through unpleasant emotions takes time while a single repetition of any mindfulness exercise only takes a few seconds. The skills of attention strengthened by mindfulness practice enhance both the resolving of unpleasant emotions and the acceptance of them.  

A mindfulness teacher needs to sell you on the possible outcomes of consistent practice but also has to steer you back again and again to the slippery path that leads to them.