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    You Are Not Your Thoughts: The Secret Magic of Mindfulness
    You Are Not Your Thoughts: The Secret Magic of Mindfulness
    You Are Not Your Thoughts: The Secret Magic of Mindfulness
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    You Are Not Your Thoughts: The Secret Magic of Mindfulness

    By Frances Trussell

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    We all wish to be more mindful, engaged, present, loving the life we are living, but is this possible and how? You Are Not Your Thoughts: The Secret Magic of Mindfulness makes the journey into a mindful way of being a profoundly simple one, both to understand and to access. It is a book for those who want to truly know the power of mindfulness to transform their experience of life. '...There are thousands of books out there to help us combat our inner self-destructive voice... if I could go back in time and read only one book on the subject, this is it.' Joe Pasquale, Comedian and Actor
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherO-Books
    Release dateNov 30, 2018
    ISBN9781785358173
    You Are Not Your Thoughts: The Secret Magic of Mindfulness
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    Frances Trussell

    Frances Trussell's passion lies in making mindfulness accessible to all. She has a background in broadcast journalism, including working for BBC Radio1's Newsbeat. In January 2017 she featured as a mindfulness coach on ITV1 prime time show Sugar Free Farm. A pioneer of Mindfulness-based RT Therapy, Frances advises on mindfulness in schools, charities, public sector employers and private businesses. She lives in Surrey, UK.

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      You Are Not Your Thoughts - Frances Trussell

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      Introduction

      There’s a quiet revolution going on, people everywhere are beginning to wake up from the daydream of their thoughts. All around eyes are blinking into the light of consciousness where millions have chosen to show up and be more present in their lives. Perhaps you are already living this way, or have had a glimmer of how it feels to be truly awake to the reality of the right here and now.

      I was depressed, painfully, sometimes suicidally so, for as long as I could remember. Most people wouldn’t have necessarily known this as I happen to be a fantastic actor, but that’s what it was – an act. I was a fraud. My life outwardly appeared a story of success; I found academic achievement easy, my career took off, I had a wide circle of friends and a wonderful partner, I had nothing to feel miserable about. And yet my inner world was a mess. I was wracked with anxiety, a constant feeling of dread pervaded every part of my life, it would sit on my chest and wake me in the night. I was an over-thinker and cycles of rumination would spin faster and faster around my mind. This spin would weave intricate stories about others’ opinions of me or write contingency plans for the many disasters that were just about to occur. It would retell stories, rewriting conversations and old events, dredging up emotions from the bed of the past that would engulf me in a murky fog of sadness. Behind a fixed smile and great shoes I lived constantly in the worlds of past and future that only by getting ‘out of my head’ on drink and drugs could I seem to escape. I was my thoughts and my thoughts were me, my thoughts were the facts that my reality was built on. Thick, heavy and persistent thinking smothered me repeatedly until I could no longer breathe. I was addicted to the sound of my own voice rumbling around my head, the deafening echoes of my opinions, beliefs and judgements, judging other people and usually most harshly myself. Lost within the confines of a solid skull everything I looked out on through sober eyes was grey and dark and boring.

      When I finally ‘got’ mindfulness it was like someone had flicked a light on; the world that had been dull now shined vividly and vibrantly in full fabulous technicolor. I was astonished that something so simple contained the power to change everything. I wrote this book so that people have to spend less time fumbling around in the dark, and as the light begins to fade (which it will) they will remember where to find the switch.

      There’s a filter on our experience of this life and that filter is our thoughts, luckily it’s all an illusion. Once we know the truth of things for ourselves we really can live more freely and be genuinely happier.

      This is just a little book, purposely so, look beyond the letters, take your time to feel what the words point to. Breathe and enjoy. It is easy to miss the most important message of mindfulness, the miracle hiding in plain sight. So here it is, let me share with you the secret magic of mindfulness – You Are Not Your Thoughts.

      You Are Not Your Thoughts: Diving into the Heart of Mindfulness

      You are not the voice inside your head.

      There is a gap, a space, a silence when that voice shuts up.

      And this is a space worth exploration.

      So put down all judgement and come diving with me.

      Letting go of the world of things.

      Together let’s plunge beneath the surface of separation into the vast pool of absolutely everything.

      Here you come home to who you really are.

      It’s a lovely place to live and it’s all here right now.

      Mindfulness is having your mind full of the thing you are doing right now in this

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