Seeking Mindfulness Mentor
Dallady
March 29th, 2023
Am looking for a way out of chronic poverty, homelessness and illness. I don't believe that society will allow me to overcome this. IF you have done so then I'll appreciate support to give me hope and guidance. I have hobbies and interests, am certified in over 20 things, have a good work ethic and many gifts. Yet I can't overcome this. What a mess.
hopefulPond6108
April 5th, 2023
@Dallady Your post is interesting. You have asked for a mindfulness mentor and mentioned specific things that I assume you believe mindfulness can help you with. While mindfulness has been specifically applied to chronic pain, I’m not sure it can be applied to other problems directly.
I practice mindfulness and remember telling someone that it gave me the ability to take advantage of more opportunities that I would have otherwise closed myself off to. So it may bery well be that mindfulness might help you get out of poverty and homelessness.
I think there are some spiritual authors that package mindfulness up along with some magical thinking that one can directly affect the fabric of the universe and make it deliver whatever we desire. When I began to learn about mindfulness I read a few books like this. I also listened to a talk by another prominent mindfulness teacher who cautioned listeners to be careful about accepting some claims about what mindfulness might be able to do. To this day I’m cautious about what I expect from my practice.
So I don’t want to discourage you from seeking mindfulness, just as I wouldn’t discourage you from seeking financial stability. But I am suggesting that mindfulness might not be a direct way to reach financial stability.
On the other hand, maybe mindfulness is useful for much more than I can imagine. I’m curious to hear how you see mindfulness and how you think it may help with the problems you listed?
I wish you the best of luck finding a mindfulness mentor and/or life coach to help you reach your goals.