Raptitude

[Gareth]

I seriously love this guy's writing. You should take a look.

http://www.raptitude.com/

[monkey]

Thanks Gareth, looks great. I like his comments about thinking about feelings so we don't have to feel them. I've been doing precisely that this morning 'no, my feelings aren't hurt, I have a whole theory about how this doesn't matter to me at all and I will expound it to myself for a good while now so I don't have to feel my hurt feelings.' Ah.

[Peter]

Thanks Gareth, I like it a lot too.
Have a nice day!
Peter

[JonW]

'I like his comments about thinking about feelings so we don't have to feel them.'

Could someone explain how this approach is mindful?
Thanks in advance,
Jon

[Peter]

Hi Jon, I don't understand what Monkey means by that, but it is not what is described on the Raptitude site. The site actually makes a lot of sense. Nothing new though, but he explains it well.

Peter

[monkey]

'I like his comments about thinking about feelings so we don't have to feel them.'

Could someone explain how this approach is mindful?
Thanks in advance,
Jon

Just poor wording on my part, sorry. He says that is our tendency, that if we have a difficult feeling we will try to think it away rather than feel it. And that turning towards or opening to the feeling is a more productive approach. So I was saying that I recognised that just before reading the article I'd been doing exactly what he described, and if I turned towards my feeling I could see that I was feeling hurt and that all my thinking to push that away was not very helpful.

[JonW]

Thanks for clarifying, monkey.
Cheers,
Jon