Glad to read you got "Flowers for Algernon" going......
I got this going: http://www.amazon.com/Just-One-Thing-De ... 1608820319.....a 4 CD package I listen to while trucking these last few days....I wanted to place the suggestion in this forum cuz I think it's a great instruction to augment my meditation and mindfulness practice.
Full title: "Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time"
I wouldn't spend too much time ruminating over wasted time in the 1990's Fargin.....or wasted time yesterday.....or worrying about how your healthcare needs 10 years from now (or next month) will be met. I assure you this advice is given with experience of one who knows how to waste huge time and worry about what was and isn't here yet......and the best way to tend that is to practice living in the present moment. The details of how and why can be found in the book posted above and from countless other learning sources dealing with meditation and mindfulness and Rational emotive behavior therapy......but it requires practice and trust in the process and I suppose the initial willingness to take a risk in the effort. I did and things are improving......
These days I feel like I have choices. Buddhism (for me it's the secular "flavor") teaches about "dukkhah"......the first of the four noble truths as taught by the fat man......which means "suffering" in terms that life is filled with it and the only way to live best is to accept it and realize lasting happiness comes from within only.....I'm not qualified to teach this, but I can sample out the simple principles......
Would you like to know, after about a year of practicing meditation/mindfulness, one measure of progress gained from my practice? If you do......
....I am just about always aware of my emotional state now.....subtleties and variations included.....where previously my moods were most often below consciousness and reactions rather than responses to events was my habit. I'm with peace in this improvement.....
I trust what I found and once more I cite someone in this forum who referenced Jon Kabat-Zinn and I took off reading that guy.....a beautiful man, he....and the forum member that hooked me up I am always grateful.....
So thank you for responding in this thread once more, Fargin......and to the Gilmartin management and everyone associated with this group, thanks too.....I get a chance to practice my typing sharing my mental health efforts. Yes I am not alone and surely most fortunate for the fellowship here......
I'm taking a little nap now....then the fireworks later....and some coffee....I overate with too much "fun food" this afternoon and I should do better, but I'll forgive myself for the holiday knowing that I eat with better choices when I'm working......
Fargin, both you and me (and everyone else).....we have all the time there is......
America, the US birthday today.....may more of us honor our nation with reality and the solutions that stand on reality and not the tired rhetoric creeched by polished knuckleheads so common in our media screen-scape. YUZ, says Mr. Deltoid
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