Mindfulness

[Beany Boo]

Good suggestion MF

[snoringdog]

Beany MD = "Mindfulness Devotee"

[Beany Boo]

It’s working

Thanks SD

[Beany Boo]

I’ve gotten the same message from different sources today.

Something will just get better without me doing anything except letting it

Not ‘everything will’, just some… thing.

I would ignore it except something is getting better without me doing anything.

I don’t know what it is; just reading the air.

[Mental Fairy]

Oh I am wondering what it is! Do you feel like you’re in the flow of life beany? Where ya just coast along and allow what is, to be what is.

[oak]

I’ve gotten the same message from different sources today.

Something will just get better without me doing anything except letting it

Word.

[Beany Boo]

Thank you Oak & MF

Do you feel like you’re in the flow of life beany? Where ya just coast along and allow what is, to be what is.

I wouldn’t go that far. I suspect though, that it’s someone has started listening to me where (for the previous decade) there had been only a vacuum.

The validation has shifted something that is sort of in the direction of what you describe.

[Mental Fairy]

I’ve noted something that infuriates me.

Sitting here in a medical office with Joes grandpa waiting to get eyes checked.

I can hear a conversation between a training worker and a member of staff teaching.

I’ve noted something recently that has infuriated me while others talk. Not sure if it’s a kiwi thing but when someone is in conversation with another and they say ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’ before the other has finished talking. Surly they can’t be listening to the other while they say ‘yeah, yeah, yeah…’

I noticed this with many people. I could be wrong but how can you really take in what someone is saying if the other is talking over the speaker?

The more I listen to this conversation (which I don’t think should be heard) the more I want to quiz the listener to see if that actually did listen to the other.

[Beany Boo]

Thank you MF

[Beany Boo]

Maybe the most important lesson I learned in therapy was modulation. In other words, being able to change gear/approach/position, at will.

Examples:

1. Once committed to a task, being able to start, then stop, rest, let go, start again from where you left off, change approach or direction and then continue until you stop again. As opposed to, once you start the only ‘choice’ is you must simply keep going relentlessly.

2. In a relationship, being able to move close, step back, wait, step away, come back, step forward, come close again; doing this repeatedly. As opposed to, once close, you’re stuck there, close for good; the only other option, having to abandon.

If I find I am not modulating; changing my mind freely, it’s a sure sign I am struggling psychologically.