Today's podcast explores the concept of Right Intention from the Eightfold Path and emphasizes the power of setting intentions aligned with qualities like kindness, empathy, and patience. Setting intentions can cut through distractions, facilitate personal growth, and provide a guiding direction for self-reflection.
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Quick takeaways
Setting intentions creates a direction to follow and helps us stay mindful throughout the day.
Treating ourselves with kindness and setting intentions to notice kindness in others can bring positive energy to our daily life.
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Setting Skillful Intention
Setting intentions helps us align with qualities like generosity, kindness, empathy, and patience. By asking ourselves what we want to bring to our day, we create a direction to follow. When we take time to set intentions, they reappear during key moments, helping us stay mindful. Even a simple intention, like slowing down and breathing, can transform our daily experiences from chores to mindful activities. Setting intentions during meditation or journaling allows us to remember the benefits of insight and clarity, guiding us towards what we need and want in life.
Developing Compassion and Kindness
The intention to cultivate a kinder, more compassionate relationship with ourselves and others is a lifelong journey. Treating ourselves like good friends and infusing our self-talk with kindness, encouragement, and gentleness can make a significant impact. Journaling can help us uncover fears, insecurities, and the things we appreciate in our lives. By setting intentions to notice the kindness of others or show compassion during interactions, we create opportunities to bring positive energy to our projects, social gatherings, and daily life.
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Setting Skillful Intentions for a Mindful and Compassionate Life
It's day 7 of Sam's guide to the Eightfold Path. Today, she talks about the power of setting intentions and the difference they can make in everything we do.
Sam has taught mindfulness and social emotional learning to teens, families and adults all over the world for more than 12 years. She obtained her master’s degrees in clinical and educational psychology from Columbia University, and an M.S. in emotion science from Mid-Sweden University. You can reach out to Sam on Instagram here!