Delightful words in Jon Kabat-Zinn's introduction to Mindfulness: an Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World (2012, by Mark Williams and Danny Penman), with emphasis added:

The practice of mindfulness has been shown to exert a powerful influence on one's health, well-being and happiness, as attested to by the scientific and medical evidence presented in this book in a very accessible fashion. However, because it is a practice rather than merely a good idea, its cultivation is a process, one that of necessity unfolds and deepens over time. It is most beneficial if you take it on as a strong commitment to yourself, one that requires a degree of stick-to-it-ness and discipline, while at the same time being playful and bringing to each moment, as best you can, a certain ease and lightness of touch—a gesture of kindness and self-compassion, really. This lightness of touch, coupled with a steadfast and wholehearted engagement, is really a signature of mindfulness training and practice in all its various forms.

Such a beautiful combination of hard work and good humor!

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