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by Egil137
Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:05 am
Forum: Mindfulness & Me
Topic: am I escaping reality or not?
Replies: 5
Views: 4053

Re: am I escaping reality or not?

Hello Cheesus,

That did help a lot and also clarified other questions.

Thank you!
by Egil137
Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:02 am
Forum: New practitioners
Topic: Dealing with impatience
Replies: 2
Views: 1723

Dealing with impatience

Hello everyone, As you have probably guessed, I feel myself wondering "how much time is left" during my practice. I always use a stopwatch and I've been building up from 5 minutes to 30 minutes just recently, which has helped a lot to get my mind used to it. However, in the past sessions I...
by Egil137
Sun Jan 05, 2014 3:25 am
Forum: Mindfulness & Me
Topic: am I escaping reality or not?
Replies: 5
Views: 4053

Re: am I escaping reality or not?

Hello Jon, Thank you for your reply, you've got a good point: there's no way of escaping reality. I went too far with that haha, I meant more like rejecting reality ; that would make more sense, right? As you say, one can still decide to try to stop paying attention to a headache, but then one is si...
by Egil137
Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:15 am
Forum: Mindfulness & Me
Topic: am I escaping reality or not?
Replies: 5
Views: 4053

am I escaping reality or not?

Hello everyone, I have a question about the ultimate goal of mindfulness meditation and maybe someone can take me out of confusion. I feel that there is a vague distinction between trying to do everything mindfully and escaping reality, as in the case of boredom: for instance, if I decide to listen ...