Mindfulness

[PartTimeBrewer]

              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.

[PartTimeBrewer]

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."  ~  Warren Buffett

[PartTimeBrewer]

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now."  ~  Chinese proverb

[PartTimeBrewer]

With wisdom, living fully in the present is the best preparation for the future.

[PartTimeBrewer]

"Because children are filled with emotions they cannot understand, they are completely dependent  on the people around them to "hold" their emotions for them and make those emotions bearable, and later intelligible."  Mark Epstein M. D.

[PartTimeBrewer]

"We all naturally desire to love and be loved, to belong, to dance and sing, to find and to live our bliss.

Show your children that these desires will find their satisfaction in the natural unfolding of things.

This is a difficult task for those of us who have been trained to support the economy by remaining continuously unsatisfied.

Our children hear far more advertising hours each and every week, than they hear our own voice in a month.

Can you show them by your own actions how true happiness can be found in loving, living, and dancing?"

~ William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching, chapter 37

[PartTimeBrewer]

"The way of the Tao is simple— stop striving, defeat desire. In the absence of striving, there is peace; in the absence of desire, there is satisfaction." ~ Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching, chapter 37

[Jozee]

"The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”  Osho

[PartTimeBrewer]

"The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”

― Norman Cousins

[PartTimeBrewer]

"True virtue does not assert itself, and therefore is unpretentious. False virtue is acting a part, and thereby is only pretense." ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 38

[PartTimeBrewer]

"Never wish them pain. That's not who you are. If they caused you pain, they must have pain inside. Wish them healing. That's what they need." ~Najwa Zebian

[Jozee]

Good to learn.

[PartTimeBrewer]

"When we suffer, notice that our suffering is often made of thoughts. As our inner commentary ceases, notice that the suffering stops, too." ~ Haemin Sunim