Whether this is your first experience of mindfulness practice, or your thousandth, each new breath, each new sensation, each transient thought or emotion is a practice in not-knowing. 

Being with what arises, we are all practitioners on the road, sharing this moment together, engaged in practice, each in our own way

In the space of not-knowing we can turn towards experience with gentle curiosity. Gaining perspective, a place to step back, settle into stillness and observe all that is alive in our thoughts, emotions, physical body, surrounding world.

Mindfulness opens awareness of habit, reflex, and patterns of reactivity.  This can be difficult, sometimes, if we don’t like what we find.  Holding the practice with kindness, compassion, care, and choice we can recognise what comes from old places, and what relates to things actually present.  With beginner’s mind we see ourselves in a new light, and we open possibility for a new way of being, and a new way of relating to self, others, and life.