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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"Both the Bible and the Koran tell us to love one another. The Kama Sutra is a little more specific."

~  Timber Hawkeye

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"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet."
~ Roger Miller

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"One important way in which we limit our options is to attribute all our troubles to a single cause. Such mindless attributions narrowly limit the range of solutions we might seek, ...we typically don’t pay attention to information that runs counter to it."
~ Ellen Langer

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"The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we simultaneously play our part while listening to the composition of others... We cannot choose whether to engage with the world, only how to."

~ Stephen Batchelor

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"Studies have shown that key inner resources such as 'an attitude of gratitude,' positive emotions, and skills with your thoughts and feelings all have significant mental and physical health benefits."
~ Rick Hanso

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"Part of spiritual growth and working on yourself is when you stop expecting others to work on themselves, and you just let them be."

~ Timber Hawkeye

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"In theory, freedom may be held in high regard; in practice it is experienced as a dizzying loss of meaning and direction."
~ Stephen Batchelorp

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"There is no one “inside” who is in control, for one cannot even control one’s next thought.

It is only the mind which chatters away pretending it has control."

Andrew @everydayawaken

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"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable."
~ Mary Oliver

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"Anxiety is never satisfied."

~ Oliver Burkeman

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"Fulfilment is never found in the future, for the future is just imagination."

~  Andrew @everydayawaken

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"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

~ Alan Watts