TBD on Ning
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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"Peace doesn’t mean my life has no problems. It’s more like I don’t go to war with my problems. Which is another way of saying I’m not at war with my life, or with myself, or with you. And that is quite peaceful." ~ Jason Garner
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Sometimes peace is just finding my missing glasses.
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“You don’t suffer because you have thoughts. You suffer because you judge them, resist them, believe them, wallow in them, or identify with them.” ~ Unknown
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“It’s difficult to admit but most of our problems are simply a matter of perspective. We create more suffering in our heads than we ever actually experience.” ~ Everyday Mindfulness
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"Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is."
~ Eckhart Tolle
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"If we bury a feeling, it lays dormant inside us. It will rise again at another (perhaps inconvenient) time. To fully process a feeling, it must be allowed to run its course." ~ Everyday Mindfulness
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"Don’t turn away from your fears. They are part of you, and they often arise from de8ep insecurity that needs to be heard." ~ Everyday Mindfulness
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"When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it."
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Expectation is the root of all heartache. ~ Anonymous
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Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. ~ Anonymous
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"What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw."
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"Myself, myself, myself, that darling hut! How quick it will burn!"
~ Mary Oliver
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