Everyday Mindfulness

....post unfinished....thanks for putting up with my prattle. You are a good man.

Hi Jon Still a bit puzzled . Your advice is to not overthink,which i assume means to not think too much. Instead of what? It is ok to have a casual think or not to think at all about your practice? I get it that of course it is necessary to treat thoughts as has been advised for millenia in the mind...

Thanks a lot Jon. You have been a great help and I deeply appreciate it.

Would send pic of job...even got a bhudda stood in corner watching
Cant find how to post from Google drive to this forum post

I am probably coming at it coc-eyed and getting myself into an unnecessary state. Thanks for the shift

Thing is Jon, you say "not too much". What is too much? ....presumeably when you start to feel bad about it. No mention in the literature! How can there be such a thing as too much mindfulness. My intention was and is good...I think!!
Thanks for the reply. Very muchappreciated

I am a bit concerned. Turned a small gardening job into a mindullness experiment. Extended job to 2 hour sessions for approx 2 weeks. Really slowed down to do it like that. First and second day great. Really relaxed through job and afterwards. Third day, yesterday, bit of agitation and sleeploss las...

The point being, I suppose, that an insight does not have to be unique but can be just original to oneself which might rock

The Hellenistic Stoic philosophers look very much like mindfulness practitioners

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism?wprov=sfla1

Peace

Quietman LOL

Btw...sorry if every woman and her madra twigged this before but what the hell!