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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"Looking within can change the world around you." ~ Josh Bulriss

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"Beneath every behavior there is a feeling. And beneath each feeling is a need. And when we meet that need, rather than focus on the behavior, we begin to deal with the cause, not the symptom." ~Ashleigh Warner

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"It's a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.” ~Aldous Huxley

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“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” – Eckhart Tolle

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Just know what is happening in your mind: not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it and be empty. ~ Ajahn Chah

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"I learned that I have to actually experience the discomfort that is there in my life. I can’t avoid it, or it will keep resurfacing again and again, pushing me to make a change.” ~Katie Mayo

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"Labeling something a problem is often what makes it one." ~ Haemin Sunim

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"We don’t live life in general; we live life in particular ways, and it is in its particulars that life is invested with wisdom and meaning." — Henry Shukman

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"So many messages telling those who are struggling to reach out. Fair enough, but part of what depression does is mutes your ability to reach. If you are NOT depressed and you see someone struggling, YOU reach out. If you don’t see someone who used to be around, YOU reach out.”

~ Caissie St. Onge

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"Your anger? It’s telling you where you feel powerless. Your anxiety? It’s telling you that something in your life is off balance. Your fear? It’s telling you what you care about. Your apathy? It’s telling you where you’re overextended and burnt out..." ~Brianna Wiest

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"Mostly, suffering thoughts are those about the past or future, and yet the past no longer exists and the future is simply a story we tell ourselves until it happens, and it may not be the story we created."
~ Blaise Aguirre

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"...we all often lose sight of what is really precious in our lives by only concentrating on what we wish were so instead of what is."
~ LIEH TZU