Everyday Mindfulness

Thank you, Jon, Gareth and Happyyogababe - you've given me some things to think about. I'm still unsure about how focusing on the pain that is causing me to feel faint will help to stop the faintness - it just seems to make it worse. I've read that there's an automatic physical response in some peop...

Can I ask what kind of mindfulness technique you use at the time of treatment? My problem is that I was doing what I thought was recommended for dealing with pain by mindfulness, and it made things worse. Anything that directed my attention towards it, eg trying to accept it, be curious about it, so...

Do you mean it was just that you practice mindfulness regularly that made you not worry so much about needles, or that you were using specific techniques when you were having the treatment to cope with it? I've done a couple of mindfulness courses online, and am currently following a mindfulness MOO...

I came to mindfulness a few years ago, but my formal mindfulness practice is very sporadic. There are periods when I meditate for 5-10 minutes every day, sometimes a bit longer, and then I get out of the habit of it and stop. It's normally a mindfulness of breath meditation - I don't like body scans...

I've had a fear of needles for most of my life. For many years I wouldn't have injections or blood tests. A sympathetic dentist helped me adjust to dental injections (I usually try counting backwards from 1000 in 3s - after 20 years of practice I'm very good at it!). And a course of CBT got me to th...

In his youtube clip at google JKZ says that when awareness arises the thought just disolves - which I am also experiencing. On the other hand he also says that awareness is much bigger than thought and that it can contain it. I believe that these two statements are contracting each other a bit.. Wh...

I gently watch for thoughts, while I am watching there are no thoughts, it is only when you slip off guard that a thought creeps in. This watching for thoughts, slows down the mind and is one of the best techniques I have found for slowing down the racing (monkey mind). That's a good idea. It's com...

This has been a continuing problem for me, and it's the main reason why I haven't been coming here very much, which is a shame. However, I've just found a Firefox add-on that's enabled me to change the pale blue on this site very easily. In case this is a problem for anyone else, the add-on is calle...

This is really interesting - I hadn't realised that eyes open meditation was 'proper' meditation. I sometimes try to meditate beside the Thames on my way to work in the morning, but because there are people walking and running past, I feel awkward standing (or sitting) with eyes closed. So I usually...

Is it possible for a user to change the colours of the text used in the forum? I find it difficult to read the pale blue text, especially in artificial light, and have been trying to find a way of changing the colour (or making it darker). I can't see any options in the Control Panel - is there a wa...