Everyday Mindfulness

Hi yardenmodan, welcome to the forum and compliments on your honesty with yourself. I recognised myself quite well in your story and wanted to share a practice with you that has served me well in similar situations. When you find yourself becoming defensive, investigate into what it is that you are ...

"Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself?" Wow Alex, thank you for sharing this quote :-) I have the feeling that mindfulness is not something you learn but something you are reminded of and this was the reminder I needed now :-) we should also be careful of not le...

Hi and welcome :-) I wish you all the best with your course. It mentions that mindfulness teaches us to see thoughts as just thoughts. But that seems to devalue them and sometimes thoughts are useful. This is true. And "thoughts are just thoughts" is a sentence that couldn't be more true :...

For me it used to be the other way around that I perceived my PhD as giving me joy but as being highly useless (it's entirely theoretical). So I was trying to find some more useful profession, but thinking of life as a game made me realize that there is no such thing. I'm happier playing my part now...

Hi Elisa, there is a difference between letting go and giving in. Giving in is another automatic reaction like resistance, pushing you into a certain corner, while letting go is the active decision not to go into any corner. The situation gets harder to deal with when you take the position of the vi...

I think you just need a couple more posts to be able to post URLs. Yeah that makes sense :-) I like that analogy about viewing life as a game or music! :-) I am glad you like it. :-) It is quite different from our usual perspective of life as reaching some sort of goal, maybe graduation or maybe re...

Thank you for the warm welcome :-) Regarding Alan Watts, there is a lot of recordings of him shared via youtube, which I highly recommend (unfortunately, I cannot post URLs). He called himself a philosophical entertainer and that name quite hits the mark. He talks about the self and that there's no ...

Don't be too hard on yourself. The more you try to will the thoughts out of the way, the more they will insist on narrating everything that goes on in detail. And if that annoys you it's all the more fun to annoy you with it :) Am I doing this mindfulness all wrong? I think that is the real issue he...

Hi, what makes these thoughts so annoying is that they are there, but they "should" not be there. It is like when you are sitting in an airplane and someone brought a child and naturally it eventually starts screaming. It is annoying because "the parents should not let the child bothe...

Hello everyone, I thought it would be nice to introduce myself. My name is Jens and I've come into contact with mindfulness through Buddhism around 5 years ago, though I should add that I do not think of myself as a Buddhist. Since then I've been practising mindfulness on and off with some longer pe...