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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Permalink Reply by PartTimeBrewer on
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Unless we are actively practicing attentive awareness of both our surroundings and our mental processes, we tend to 'see' only what we are thinking and feeling, not what is really there.
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This is how subjective reality diverges from objective reality.
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“I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
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"As long as you think anyone, or anything else is responsible for your suffering, you are forever in the role of victim." ~ Byron Katie
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"..., so if you must hurry, then hurry slowly."
"We are not rats and life is not a race."
Geir Berthelsen
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"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality." ~ Bryan Singer
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Sometimes it's really hard to recognize that our subjective perception of reality doesn't really match up well with actual objective truth. Thus arises delusion.
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"If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick everyday." ~ Leonard Cohen
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"Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes,
and the grass grows by itself." ~ Zen proverb
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"Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others." ~ Pema Chodron
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"Be content with the moment and be willing to follow the flow, then there will be no room for grief or joy." ~ Zhuangzi
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This Mindfulness movement often seems to be self-contradictory. Sometimes it seems to be prescribing a process to bring joy and happiness into your life, and at the next turn, deriding these emotions as attachments that can only end in disappointment. I think the appearance of this paradox is due to a degree of imprecision in the way these words are defined and used. "Words are the fog one has to see through." ~ Zen proverb
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