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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"We don’t have to waste time looking for new inspiration or figuring out where to start. The start is always here, now."
~ Susan Piver

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"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness." ~ James Thurber

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Enlightenment could be defined as the absence of resistance to what is, the total intimacy with whatever is taking place, without any desire to reject or replace it. – Rupert Spira

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"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Pay attention to something in your surroundings—the in and out of your breath, the rhythm of your heart, the pain in your knee, a barking dog, the crimson hues of the oxblood. Just rest here and breathe. This moment is meditation. This moment is your life. This moment is enough."

~ Jason Garner

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“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life…The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.” - Seneca

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"Imagine the present moment is a small child or puppy. If we take our eyes off of it for too long it may disappear."  ~ The Mindfulness Project

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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"...transformation happens, not by working harder, but by allowing our minds to rest. It occurs via receptivity rather than effort."
~ Susan Piver

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"Your thoughts are not you. They may not even be your thoughts. Think of them as mental events that arise and then disipate. Watch them come and go..." The Mindfulness Project

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“Keep a green bough in your heart, and a singing bird will come.” -- LAO TSU

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"To prepare oneself for death is to prepare oneself for freedom. The one who has learned to die has unlearned to be a slave." ~ Montaigne