Everyday Mindfulness

i've just posed a similar question to the bloke that did my teacher training. i asked if pranayama where i'm mindful of my breath but also controlling and manipulating it is mindfulness or just mindful. i suppose i've seen mindfulness as awareness of my breath, or anything else for that matter, as ...

Good Morning, Matt, all. Thanks for all these resopnses! There must be some reason people make these distinctions. I wish I knew more about TM which I only flirted with in my shallow and callow youth, and got it from a black market TM teacher at that! Hehehehe . . . But I didn't stick with it long e...

Sat 13 Sep 2014, 6:56 pm Hi All, In light of a recent thread here about how to regard/deal with thoughts during meditation, I had another question which might be of interest. Recently, I read somewhere that meditation can broadly fit into two types: 1. Focused (such as on a sound or a mantra or a ca...

Hi Rex, I'd like to suggest that your issue with thoughts is only a problem if you make the instruction to return to the breath a "rule" rather than a suggestion. In mindfulness and meditation, the instructions offered are often taken — or assumed to be — rules, or edicts that must be enf...

Fri 29 Aug 2014, 9:14 pm Hi All, Another newbie question. I practice QiGong (Shibashi). I am not a big fan of directing "qi" or of the visualizations which are traditionally taught as a part of QiGong and TaiChi practice. I would prefer to use QiGon as a part of my mindful movement meditat...

Fri 29 Aug 2014, 8:00 pm Hi All, Nice to meet you all. I have "dabbled" with mindfulness for awhile, but more recently have been taking a course and working on a more formal practice. I have a question about insights and "interesting" or "important" thoughts, and I woul...