Key points
Mindful photography can help you develop new habits of noticing and seeing.
Practicing beginner's mind, looking for the unexpected, and looking beyond boundaries are expansive practices.
Photography that moves beyond our stories about the world helps us see new possibilities in our daily lives.
By Josh Bartok, M.S., and Lizabeth Roemer, Ph.D.
“It remains a wonder to me that if I really look at what is before me, I invariably give my heart to it.” —Lin Jensen, Bad Dog! Love, Beauty, and Redemption in Dark Places
In our previous post, we talked generally about the power and practice of noticing . Here we want to build on that by exploring how we might make photography—including phone-based photography—part of a mindful practice of noticing with awareness, beginner’s mind,