Everyday Mindfulness

ahhhh thank you. Just dropping by.

Yes there is a definite sensitivity to the muscular tension that signals emotional reactivity is about to happen - as sensitivity increases one gains more and more of an ability to 'release the steam' so to speak before one blows one's top. This is the key mechanism underlying mindfulness in my opin...

Reflecting negatively on 'happy' events tends to happen more with people who have a history of depressive relapse - habitual negative thought cycles colouring events. Seeing thoughts as just thoughts (week 6 of the 8 week course), and not 'you' helps a lot with remaining de-centralized from such ref...

Along with watching the emotion, I suggest you try naming the emotion out loud. If it is fear, worry, shame or whatever, just state it, saying "fear, fear", then watch what happens.[...] I suggest that you also try something called metta (loving kindness) practice. This will help you to f...

but I don't think things are as clear cut as you suggest - the most prepared student may still be racked with worry and anxiety. And so we do the best we can given the circumstances. I was thinking of situations where there is choice; the situation is uncomfortable but what do we do about it? I thi...

Thanks

Sorry I missed this thread when it happened, but I am very interested in flow states and their relationship to mindfulness and peaceful satisfaction. Let's get some academic rigour in here via Ronald D. Siegel , Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and his book The M...

Thank you - I owe it to Jon Kabat-Zinn, Charlotte Joko Beck, and the movie 'Zen Noir'.

EDIT: as well as some pretty gruelling life experiences forcing me to practice

I must remember never to take you up on an invite to the cinema.

Very true, Jon. I know of someone in my city who says he went to an Osho retreat in India which included a workshop for experiementing with emotional states - when they were told to embody erotic love, a huge orgy ensued :shock: Osho used to be called Rajneesh - plenty of info in this online book he...