New Blog: I took the plunge

Post here if you are just starting out with your mindfulness practice. Mindfulness is a really difficult concept to get your head around at first, and it might be that you would benefit from some help from others.
Jenna
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Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:36 pm  

Hi All

Encouraged by JonW (thanks!!!) I have started my own mindfulness blog :D

It is very scary but think and feel it will be a useful tool for me. The link is: http://calmermindfulme.blogspot.co.uk/2 ... urney.html

I hope that you will feel comfortable enough to share your comments. If not please enjoy my journey I am sure I will.

xxx

P.S any bloggers and even non-bloggers amongst you who would care to let me have any feedback please PM me.

x
Please join me on my journey which can be found at http://calmermindfulme.blogspot.co.uk/2 ... urney.html

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FeeHutch
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Sun Apr 14, 2013 2:47 pm  

Good start Jenna. I'll keep checking for new updates :)
I find blogging a very useful outlet. Mine is mostly about music and health and anything else I fancy but I do have a dedicated mindfulness page.
It's also a way of virtually meeting new people.
“Being mindful means that we take in the present moment as it is rather than as we would like it to be.”
Mark Williams

http://adlibbed.blogspot.co.uk/p/mindfulness-me-enjoy-silence.html
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Gareth
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Sun Apr 14, 2013 3:29 pm  

Well done Jenna,

I can use one of the blogs as an EM blog if you want me too?

Jenna
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Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:40 am  

Gareth

That would be great thanks
Please join me on my journey which can be found at http://calmermindfulme.blogspot.co.uk/2 ... urney.html


Jenna
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Mon Apr 22, 2013 9:39 pm  

Hi all

my latest blog post can be found here: http://calmermindfulme.blogspot.co.uk/
Please join me on my journey which can be found at http://calmermindfulme.blogspot.co.uk/2 ... urney.html

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piedwagtail91
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Practice Mindfulness Since: 0- 3-2011
Location: Lancashire witch country

Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:18 am  

nicked from your blog!!
" I have also started to realise that my thinking doesn't help the way I react and feel. "
that's a big step forwards and one of the most important.
it'll all become clearer and easier with practice.
mick

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barbs55
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:54 am  

Hi Jenna, I really enjoyed your last blog post on reading 'the mindful way through depression' book, and wondered if you would be OK with me posting a link to your blog on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everyday- ... 291?ref=hl

I think other people who don't read this forum yet would also find it helpful.

Let me know if this is OK with you?

Jenna
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:15 am  

Barbs that would be lovely thank you!!! How sweet of you.

I have one request could you keep it annonymous please?

Thanks
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BioSattva
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:48 am  

A great post, indeed. It's an insteresting thing about mindfulness that it doesn't matter how long one has been doing it, anyone's heart-felt reflections on the practice are always valuable to people at any stage of the practice - it's probably the whole necessary 'beginner's mind' thing - the practice is essentially the same practice no matter the length of the practice.

This phrase particularly jumped out from your blog post Jenna: "my brain has simply developed pathways". If only more people could realise that instead of condemning themselves to a life of 'wrongness', instead of seeking to 'manage' their pathways so that they become healthier...
"Compassion – particularly for yourself – is of overwhelming importance." - Mark Williams, Mindfulness (2011), p117.
"...allow yourself to smile inwardly." - Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living (2005), p436.
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