A Daily Dose of Mindfulness

I am still grateful for practices and attitudes I developed before the new mindfulness trend .. but they do fall under the mindfulness banner.

They dont work as easy as pressing a button or a click on the computer .. but they do help orient mind and thinking.

Nothing is that simple cash or no cash @Matt12

Its also not simple getting cash .. but soon we wil be in a relatively cash free world.

I understand your statement about monks etc .. some of those monk also .. tilled the soil .. in between meditation sessions.

Good Luck with seeking

I have never spent a cent on mindfulness. Oh maybe incidentally I have, now thinking about it.

I did become aware of the principles of it when travelling. And yes, that did involve monks. In a very insightful way. That is when I decided to try to understand it and incorporate it in a conscious practice. Long before it was usurped into "new vogue".

I found I had actually been doing my own version inately.

A very observant monk shared his thoughts with me and I still hold them as a lesson. To paraphrase, he said "many people think it necessary to clear the mind to meditate. This is somewhat of a fallacy. While this can be done, it is not necessary. What is important is a clear mind. That is to say an uncluttered mind that can focus on the moment, then the mind becomes tranquil."

I think, when that can be understood, we have reached a new level of awareness.

There is a quote attributed to Einstein, I am unsure of it's authenticity as I have not researched it, but in it he offers that no problem can be solved in the same level of consciousness that created it. This rings true. In order to cease repeating an outcome we must raise to a new level of consciousness to curtail it. That is learn how to solve it.

So, to me, anything that can help me attain clearer understanding is helpful at least, and who knows what it might lead to.

Thanks for the response, tilled the soil does not pay the bills, nor does meditation, I am working on mindfulness as a tool to help but also need to focuss on the "now" the real world, dealing with reality is not about breething deeply and meditation, yes this helps as a tool, but its been tabled lately as the answer, the answer is far deeper and more complicated to be labeled "mindfulness". and the reality is money rules, you have you get the support without is an ongoing battle, mindfulness wont fill the stomack but might settle the mind if in the grove.

Cheers to all 🙂

What a nice way to log on and see a flourish of conversation emerge 🙂

I've really enjoyed reading through everyones responses. Thank you for taking the time to contribute.

Upon refelection what I'm taking away is everyone's own unique experiences. I love that we are sifting through to find what works best for us and whilst doing that hearing from others about where they are at, what's useful or not and the new learning/insight that can emerge along the way.

Thank you 🙂

Hi Pebbles, standard response in line with your guidelines what about substances that will make a differance to the community, looking for tools not fluff and repeditive responses, the challenge of a moderator is to lead.. 🙂

@Former-Member Here is a "brief" summation of a paper on the studies into the effects of mindfuless on psychopathology. Also just some of the studies into the associated relevance. It clearly illustrates the topical nature of mindfulness and ongoing research into its effects on a broad range of mental health issues.

Assessing Mindfulness & Acceptance processes in Clients - Ruth A. Baer, PhD

Subjects Addressed:

• Mindfulness-Acceptance Based Interventions and Process of Change (R A Bear Phd, University of Kentucky)
  
  
• Relationship Between emotion regulation and temperamental emotional vulnerability (Livesley,Jang & Vernon 1998)
  
  
• Ongoing study of the affects on borderline personality disorder (BPD)
  
  
• Many individuals struggle with their emotions (Chapman, Gratz & Brown, 2006; White side et al, 2007)
  Grate & Roemer, 2004 emphasises the functionality of emotions and defines emotion regulation as a multidimensional construct involving awareness, understanding and acceptance… emotion regulation also overlaps with mindfulness
  
  
• The acceptance-bred nature of this conceptualisation of emotion regulation is consistent with theories of underlying acceptance and mindfulness based approaches.
  
  
• The fact such individuals caught in a struggle with their emotions suggest they may benefit form learning another way of approaching and responding to their emotions such as emotion acceptance, willingness and mindfulness.
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Evidence for emotion regulation as a mechanism of Change in acceptance and mindfulness based treatments (Gratz, Rosenthal, et al, 2006: Roemer et al, 2009, Tull, Barrett, et al, 2007).

Adaptive emotion regulation is associated with greater emotional adjustment (Berking, Orth, Wupperman, Meier, & Caspar, 2008).

Treatments that promote adaptive emotion regulation may be expected to decrease psychopathology and increase well-being and adaptive functioning

Studies have shown the ability to engage in goal-directed behaviour when distressed, predicts lower levels of negative affect and anxiety and higher levels of positive affect two weeks later (Berking et al., 2008)

Preliminary evidence suggests that mindfulness based treatments may promote more adaptive emotion relation across various patient populations.

Psychological flexibility as a mechanism of Change in acceptant and commitment therapy (Joseph Ciarrochi, Linda Bilich and Clair Godspell, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Kenny, M A & Williams, J M G (2007) - Behaviour Research and Therapy. Treatment resistant depressed patients show a good response to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.

Singh, N N, Wahler, R G, Winton & Adkins (2004). A mindfulness-based treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder. Clinical Study

Williams JMG, Alatiq, Crane, Barnhofer, Fennell, Duggans et al (2008) Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in bipolar disorder. Preliminary evaluation of immediate effects on between episode functioning. (Journal of Affective Disorders)
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Additional Subject correlations:

- Studies using Self Compassion shown relationships between self compassion and psychological functioning. (Neff, Kirkpatrick and Rude (2007)

- Relationship between self compassion and mindfulness. Self compassion is closely related to mindfulness and like mindfulness it can be cultivated through meditation practices that originate int eh Buddhist tradition.

Hi all

thanks...I have a lot off work to do !!!!, the real world ?

Hi @Matt12, I totally hear what you are saying regarding fluff vs the real world. I desperately want to be in employment because I have a mortgage to pay and I loathe being reliant on welfare. I want REAL help with my REAL muddle. The thing is...most of my muddle comes down to severe emotion dysregulation due to a messy trauma history. Mindfulness helps me regulate my emotions...sometimes - often they are too big for anything to really help with. But it does help sometimes. It often helps me to regulate my emotions when I'm in public spaces such as the shops. This in turn means I don't go into extreme crisis and end up with bystanders calling the police which then adds a whole new layer of trauma to my muddle. So yeah, I totally hear you when you talk about fluff and I'm with you in being over fluffy solutions...but I also know that things like mindfulness, slow breathing etc help me to do the things I need to do in the real world. They aren't THE solution...but they help me stay alive which is kind-of important for continuing to be in the real world

Thanks for th feedback 🙂

Hi all looking for inspirational mindfulness feedback to enhance my process. Any ideas??