Everyday Mindfulness

Deborah - I have been dabbling with mindfulness for some years. Even when I say, 'OK, I will go in the bath mindfully from now on,' I often forget. In fact, this is part of one of the 8 week programmes I have committed to, and I still forget!! :-D As Jon Kabat-Zinn says (near enough) the hardest par...

Thanks, Jon.

So in essence, it might be better to see 'mind' just as a concept which is used to explain how to be mindfule, rather than a definite, distinct entity of whetever form and content?

I am reading Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness For Beginners at the moment. On p24 he says some meditation practices, "serve to stablilize and calibrate the mind so that it can do the deep work of seeing into the actuality of what is being observed." I am aware that mindfulness is the awareness whi...

I do try JonW (without battering myself if I don't) but OCD has been that bad the past few days that I hve not been able to. I do wish there was a proper guide on mindfulness for OCD. The two books that purport to be depart from 'proper' mindfulness (and are actually confusing if you read them along...

Hello Matt sorry for the late reply. I have had a bad few OCD days. I know where you are coming from with your 'need to know' when reading/learning. I don't know if you have ever thought of it as this but I consider it as part of my OCD. I think it certainly has compulsive elements, for me. I find t...

Matt Y, some really incisive Qs here, thanks for those. They got me looking for answers to increase my understanding. 1. I wonder: Do you consider your urge to think things through to be negative? Problematic? Disturbing? Do you see any advantages to a brain that functions in that way? What would it...

Hi PDee, Welcome to the forum. Have you thought about doing an 8-week mindfulness course? It can help enormously to ground yourself in the practice in this way. Numerous options are available and I'd be happy to advise. Please feel free to let me know if you would like further information. All best...

Thanks, Gareth. I honestly had no idea of a starting-point until I read this. There are some books out there which say they take a Mindfulness approach to OCD but I think they are not genuine mindfulness approaches and contradict some of the pure Mindfulness books/instructions that are around. What ...

Hello everyone. I have suffered from OCD in various forms since I was 4 (seriously) starting with a tapping routine. When I was 7-8 it moved-on to a thought-based OCD being the problem. For example, when I was playing football at school, if I scored a goal I 'had' to think-through what happened and ...