Everyday Mindfulness

It is a bugbear and, ironically, one of the reasons why I come to mindfulness - over-thinking, over-analysing! :lol: I think maybe I am treating the concepts as too rigid, as well. I tend to define things in concrete, 100% is or 100% isn't terms, I have noticed. I will start again(!) with your under...

Yet more confusion for me... When we are mindfully aware, we are 'being', i.e. non-doing. This is the opposite to doing mode, i.e. analysing, problem-solving, thinking. We can perform physical activity we are mindfully aware/being/non-doing. We can also be mindfully aware/being/non-doing as we think...

I think I have grasped what the problem is, it's his definitions and uses of being and doing. JKZ uses 'doing' to mean both mental and physical doing. He uses 'be' and 'being' to mean both mentally and physically doing nothing apart from being aware, and also to mean just doing nothing mentally whil...

Thanks again for your input. Really appreciate it. What I will TRY to do is, when that feeling of dread with the impulse to try to think a situation through arise, be aware of them and inquire into what 'this' feels like, where, and what thoughts are arising with those emotions and sensations. It wi...

Also, another JKZ (paraphrased) - thinking is not a problem in mindfulness meditation. We are not trying to stop thoughts, we simply make room for them. What I find is that a thought arises and my focus on my (for example_ breath and belly is pulled away by that thought. I then refocus on my belly a...

Thanks, Rara, I will give it a try!

Even simple points he dresses-up in over-elaborate language. If you are super-stressed, the book is going to be off-putting because you won't have the time or inclination to sit through and translate it. I find the chapter on the problem of the 9 dots to be bizarre. Why not just say that, often, we ...

I have got to say, I am finding the revised version as baffling as the original. I hoped that Kabat-Zinn would have rewritten it extensively to make it more accessible. Not so.

It is a shame that he has not done this.

Hi Newbie. That sounds pretty much spot on to me. Many thanks. Jon Kabat-Zinn puts it like this: "“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.” Cheers, Jon. One of the reasons I did not commit to Mindfulness fully in the past ...

I am working at developing mindfulness with this book and the CDs designed to accompany it. However, I have found the first section sometimes a little confusing or vague. So, here is my summary of the theory which underpins developing mindfulness within the MBSR framework. Please feel free to critiq...