Everyday Mindfulness

Hey everyone! I just caught flew and I find it very hard to keep it up with my formal and informal meditation practise. During breathing meditation (and also often in body scan) I find it almost impossible to focus on the object. My mind is suck very hard into thinking making detachment very difficu...

Hey Pajko! I feel you..! I ve tried meditation for the last 2 years on and off on my own, without any help and it probably did more harm than good, cause I had no clue what I was doing. I was reading some very philosophical books about buddhism and it was very hard for me to put their ideas into pra...

Haha! The cafe is located in Bangladesh. If you can make it to there its on the house

From the book anxiety and phobia workbook by bourne, edmond: "In short, too much caffeine can keep you in a chronically tense, aroused condition, leaving you more vulnerable to generalized anxiety, as well as panic attacks." I myself own a cafe and know that it can get me very aroused, but...

Hey guys! I now read quite a few articles and books of mindfulness about dealing with difficult thougts and emotions. I summarized it into the RAIN "method". R- Recognize Becoming aware of thought or emotion A- Accepting Accepting their presence. Being non-judgmental about them being there...

Okay makes sense.:) Another question to you wise people. I'm currently reading "The mindful way through depression" by mark williams (great book) but i'm a bit puzzled about one part: dealing with self-critical commentary (thoughts) in every day life. From what I understand he says that we...

Thank you very much!

Hey guys! I've just finished reading "the mindfulness workbook for OCD" and I def. learned some important points such as staying with difficult emotions such as fear instead of rationalizing them etc. (and it seems to work very well) But unfortunately some chapters got me really thinking a...

Heya! Here again a new question!:D Currently, beside JKZ and other books that I am reading about mindfulness, I've started reading the classic "how to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie, which doesn't talk about mindfulness at all. My question is: how do you approach other ...

Thanks Matt! Both of your points are very insightful!:)