I have been doing quite a bit of considering the Mindfulness
and Meditation. I started by reading, “Mindfulness
in Plain English” by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana and this was an eye opener
for me. I am not a Buddhist, but I can see the wisdom in approaching life from
the proper perspective for limiting unneeded or futile fears. I took a stress management
class many years ago, and this was strictly to relax an anxiety stricken
student. Mindfulness and Meditation has proven to be rather interesting as it
is a whole other dimension. You are supposed to take your mind and be
completely still, silent and think nothing. Inevitably this state is extremely
difficult to maintain for any truly substation amount of time. As the thoughts
come to your mind, you are to observe them without judgment and let them float
by. The idea is that you are on the bottom of the pool and your ideas are like
bubbles and you just watch them as they float to the surface of the water. I
have been able to manage this for about 15-30minutes before I feel like I need
to get up and run around the block or fall straight to sleep. There is a bunch
more to this but so far, this is what I’ve tried.
by: Martin Str
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