Everyday Mindfulness

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I have spent so many years hating myself and feeling the need to change everything about myself true self acceptance is a complete mystery. I have read about it but I can't feel it. where do I start? Sorry to moan. Thank you xx The most important thing I can encourage you to do is come back to the ...

Thank you for your observations. I think I agree. Regarding John's "Once Mindfulness is moved out of observation only, it looses significant potency to observe". This was just an overly complex way of saying when you are not in being mode you are in doing mode. The real point of the blog w...

Jon. The disagreement is that I do not think that one "ultimately has to decide". Though I would argue against myself that not voting is a decision b/c it has a consequence. The point I am trying to make is a hard distinction between Mindfulness practice (observation only) and actions. I d...

It sounds like you are practicing diligently and it is helping gain insight into how attention ebs and flow, moves and changes. Here are some thoughts to consider about each of your questions / insights- 1) Try to be aware - As you practice being aware moment-to-moment, consider investigating the re...

Simply put - Ask yourself this: What is the emotion present than makes you concerned at all with knowing what observing thought is like? What is present for you in your physical body that makes you feel that it is an important question? Answer this and you will not worry about the question and you w...

From one perspective, Mindfulness or Meditation is an ARBITRARY set of instructions that create an impossibility. We are told to sit still and follow our breath. By focusing on 1 thing we find that there were many more things going on than we realized. For many people, this is the realization of the...

I have read many things about Mindfulness and politics this election cycle. I am very perplexed by what I read and so I am sharing a blog i wrote to see what feedback people have. Here is the link -

https://rvawell.blogspot.com/2017/01/mi ... sited.html

Maybe I will be going to far, but implied in your question is this idea that there is some problem with thoughts? There is this desire to become not so caught up in thoughts? That seems very stressful - where did you get this idea about thoughts? Here is an example - When a person goes to the beach ...

Mindfulness is not a state to attain and it is not about feeling a certain way, it is not about practicing a certain way, it is just about being aware of what is. Mindfulness is impartial and includes the just and unjust alike. Regarding flow, it sounds like w/o saying it directly that you are seeki...