Everyday Mindfulness

Thank's Jon. Perhaps when I can test this out for a few months more.

Thank you for your feedback. I just read a lot of books, none really go into detail on one topic but lots of parts fit together showing common themes. I then try and observe their ideas in meditation. MBSR & MBCT books I find are good in a introductory technical manual type of way, they help red...

Update and major breakthrough. For the last 12 months, along with meditation I have also been continually reading to broaden the scope of my understanding. Many authors and teachers in these books have mentioned that when faced with a difficult emotion, in my case depression, you need to invite it i...

Following on from above the depressed state is still here. So I have been busy reading up on possible ways to truly let it go. MBSR and MBCT forms of mindfulness are a great into and have definitely helped. I have found they helped me a lot more with stress and anxiety than depression. I believe the...

I am putting this post here in case anyone else, suffering with depression, could benefit in any way. I have been practising quite intensely for a year now and the initial aim was to be free from stress and anxiety. I would have to say that those areas have been greatly reduced to the point where no...

As Gareth mentioned it is not about getting rid of thoughts and you should not try to suppress them. It sounds like you are handling it all very well by acknowledging them and maintaining focus on the breath. Mindfulness is about being an observer of the mind so if you can keep your attention on bre...

Matt, thanks for the book When Awareness Becomes Natural: A Guide to Cultivating Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Sayadaw U Tejaniya. It was very enlightening and the cornerstone of my continual practice now. It has also helped with aspects of my sitting practice on the Mind Illuminated path. For any...

Thanks Jon!! Some great quotes there. Easy to understand on the atomic level, I need to start working on feeling it too.

Many Thanks. As luck would have it the next random book I picked up explored this all in quite a bit of detail too. It seems quite a widespread view behind meditation; Oneness, Tao and Emptiness etc. It made a lot more sense although raises more questions. The theme seems to be we come from energy a...

Hi Jon, My words were quite harsh and I certainly didn't intend that towards Tolle, or Bert. I found the book highly motivating and covers a lot of topics. All really make sense except for some concepts eg emptiness, voids, the unmanifested but what really seemed to cause a reaction in me was sectio...