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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"Becoming yourself is a lifetime's work." ~ Everyday Mindfulness
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Be patient.
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"Standing back from your own thoughts makes it easier to see their patterns." ~ Everyday Mindfulness
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Permalink Reply by Westerly_2 on
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Yes, but how do you stand back from them. I see my patterns only years later.
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Meditation, I think. I have been harping on mindfulness here but have been struggling with efforts to stay in my meditation practice. So it may be, "Do as I say, not as I do", but the idea is to watch your thoughts without personal judgement. Just let your thoughts come and go and be impartial toward them. OK, that takes practice, therein lies my problem. Perhaps this sort of distancing from our thoughts can allow us to be objective as if seen by somebody else. Otherwise, we will always be reconstructing what went wrong after the fact.
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"The real thief is worrying. It takes away your time in enjoying life." ~ Ajahn Brahm
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I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." ~ Mark Twain
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I know when I objectively monitor my thoughts, while trying to meditate or not, I am always amazed at how many of them are mood degrading worries about things over which I have no control and probably won't happen anyway. Best to catch such thoughts early and let them go.
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"Of all the words that you out of our mouths everyday, how many of them are really ours and how many are patched together from others." ~ Haemin Sunim
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A detached monitoring of my thoughts can help identify a pattern of just parroting something I have read or heard without confirmation as opposed to expressing thoughtful opinions.
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"Learning how your mind works is useful. Even if you don't like what you find." ~ Everyday Mindfulness.
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"To be fully alive, fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest." ~ Pema Chodron
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