Mindfulness Pocketbook: Little Exercises for a Calmer Life

Having A Beginner's Mind

‘Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.’ – Meister Eckhart

Having a ‘beginner's mind’ simply means that you engage with other people, events, objects and activities as if for the first time.

Usually, what you do, how you think and how you feel are based on past experience, beliefs, judgements and conclusions. But when you do things the same way and take the same route as you have done before, when you stick to your habitual ways of thinking and responding to events and other people, you miss all sorts of possibilities, discoveries and insights. You are taking a narrow path that makes it less likely that ...