Mindfulness can save your life...

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.
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rara
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Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:18 pm  

...everyday when crossing roads...look both ways, constantly...kiddies stuff...but everyday I nearly see a university student die in Huddersfield due to being cool and vacant!
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GianKarlo
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 9:58 am  

But meditation can save our life! This may sound farfetched, but meditation is a direct way to cut through the chaotic monkey mind constantly making excuses and supporting our neurosis. It's that fundamental. Yet so many people pay it so little attention. Drinking alcohol can kill and meditation can save, yet there are far more people who drink. Great resources !
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 2:30 pm  

Gian,
Your posts seem to have links embedded in them on the words meditation, alcohol and drink. I am not sure if this is intentional or a technical problem at my end?
“Being mindful means that we take in the present moment as it is rather than as we would like it to be.”
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Cheesus
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 5:30 pm  

I don't see anything, Fee.

Meditation can also save your life in the sense that it improves the immune system and can turn on positive, and off negative, genes.
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages - Henry David Thoreau, Walden: or, Life in the Woods
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:12 pm  

Yep it is a problem with my computer then because it is showing links in your post too Cheesus.
Ah well, I haven't broken it for at least 3 days :D
“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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Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:51 pm  

Is it only the words "alcohol" and "drink" that are jumping out at you, Fee?
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Cheesus
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 9:57 pm  

JonW wrote:Is it only the words "alcohol" and "drink" that are jumping out at you, Fee?


:lol:
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages - Henry David Thoreau, Walden: or, Life in the Woods
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Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:00 am  

Well and God.... :lol:
“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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BioSattva
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Thu Sep 05, 2013 1:49 am  

Is there really something alcohol strange going drink on meditation this page?

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"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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FeeHutch
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Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:13 am  

:lol: must get new antivirus sorted asap!
“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
Find me on twitter - @feehutch
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