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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“People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness.” ~Unknown

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"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all... Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."
~Rumi

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"Faith collaborates with Life's Mystery, the way a swimmer cooperates with buoyancy, or a dancer with gravity."
~ David Steindl-Rast

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“I know that no one else is responsible for my happiness, but I am very appreciative of the people who add to it."

~ Tiny Buddha

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"The richness of present-moment experience is the richness of life itself. Too often we let our thinking and our beliefs about what we ‘know’ prevent us from seeing things as they really are."

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

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"Our fears want to hang out in the past, our wishful thinking inhabits the future, but only in the Now can we soberly respond to Life and it's demands. The Ego is never in the Now, but always entangled in past and future."
~ David Steindl-Rast

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"There is no you different from what is happening, and therefore it is not happening to you. It is just happening."
~ Alan Watts

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"Any process that takes time makes us anxious. We have lost the joy that comes only when we have to wait for something-the joy of deferred gratification, as we call it.
~ DAVID STEINDL-RAST

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“with gratitude optimism is sustainable”
Michael J. Fox

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“True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are. It requires you to BE who you are.” ~Brené Brown

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Give me a quiet life. One where I can hear the trees rustling in the wind, raindrops on the windows, pages of a book being turned, coffee being brewed, and the heartbeats of the ones I love.

~ Tiny Buddha