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Mindfulness
I am starting a new thread here mainly for purposes of my own catharsis. It is my intention, at least at this point, to make regular contributions. Of course, if anyone else has anything to add, they are more than welcome. If you have any input, please contribute.
Over a year ago I decided to deal head-on with my self-diagnosed adult attention disorder, (ADD). The inability to stay focused was becoming too stressful. I found myself sitting around watching the clock tick, yet I couldn’t keep “on task” with any project I started. Nothing was getting done and just starting something was becoming depressing.
The smart thing to do was probably to get professional help, so instead I decided to try to heal myself, at least as a first try. Cognitive therapy and pharmaceuticals (UGH) might be the approved way to go but I decided to try meditation first.
18 months and countless self-help books later, I still can’t bring myself to a regular, formal meditation program. But, along the way, I discovered informal mindfulness. Yes, I know it is the “Fad” right now. It is hard to navigate modern social trends without “tripping over” somebody extolling the benefits of mindfulness.
Let me add my voice to the chorus.
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"You do not have to abandon this world. You do not have to go to heaven or wait for the future to take refuge. You can take refuge here and now. You only need to dwell deeply in the present moment."
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." ~ Maya Angelou
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"Choose intentions, not goals. A goal is an imaginary target fixed somewhere in the future whereas an intention is a course you set, starting from wherever you are right now." ~ Everyday Mindfulness
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"If it looks like wisdom but is unkind, it's not wisdom. If it feels like love but it's not wise, it's not love."
— Lama Surya Das
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"How to Be Kind When Confronted with Cruelty
Kindness is a force of imagination—a whole-hearted, courageous, genuine awareness that we are all connected." ~ Mindful Online -
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"Each of us may be nothing more than a moving wave of change, but we are waves able to know this fact. We rise and fall in an infinitely deep and timeless sea, upright and undisturbed."
— Sallie Tisdale -
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"I used to struggle a lot with anxiety, and I see now that much of this battle came not from the feeling of anxiety in itself, but from my unwillingness to experience it.” ~ Sheila Bayliss
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Now I only need to learn how to embrace my anxiety like a long lost friend.
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"The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing.
And invite them in."
~ Rumi, The Guest House
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"Don’t measure your #mindfulness practice against an idea in your head or some picture you saw of a woman meditating. Every meditation is different. Every moment is different." ~ Everyday Mindfulness
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"If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so."
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche,
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We live our lives in our own minds, they are our homes. Who do you trust to be your interior decorator?
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