Mindfulness

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              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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"1. Imagine everyone you meet is someone you’re proud of, excited for, or rooting for."
~ 7 Things You Need to Do If You Want to Enjoy Life More

By Lori Deschene

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"When we choose to let go of expectation, we can stay mindfully present with our social interactions as they unfold moment-by-moment."

~ The Mindfulness Project

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"Next time you notice a difficult emotion, see if you can simply let it pass through your awareness with acceptance and non-judgement." The Mindfulness Project

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"Something simple like the taste of an apple cannot be adequately described to someone who has never tasted one.

It must be experienced to be known.

Yet we think that life, in all its vastness, can be adequately described with words and concepts?

This is foolishness. Truth must be experienced."

~ Andrew @everydayawaken

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"Happiness is not a result to be attained through action, but a fact to be realized through knowledge. The sphere of action is to express it, not to gain it.

~  Alan Watts

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"The analytical mind is the creator of separation.

It interprets experience, which is unified and whole, and in the process breaks it into pieces.

“Me” and “not me”. This and that.

In pure experience, prior to thoughts, there is no such separation."

Andrew @everydayawaken

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"We may speak of conditions and consequences as though they were things, but if we look more closely they turn out to be processes with no independent reality."
~ Stephen Batchelor

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"If you don’t have all the information, stop filling in the blanks with your imagination, fears, or projections. It’s better to learn to sit with an unclear picture than to carry around an inaccurate one." ~Sara Kuburic

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"The practice of staying present will heal you. Obsessing about how the future will turn out creates anxiety. Replaying broken scenarios from the past causes anger or sadness. Stay here, in the moment." ~ Sylvester McNutt

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"I cannot do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do."

~ Helen Keller

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"I am who I am not because of an essential self hidden away in the core of my being but because of an unprecedented and unrepeatable matrix of conditions that formed me."
~ Stephen Batchelor

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"The strongest people are the ones who are still kind after the world tore them apart." ~Raven Emotion