Mindfulness Check-in Oct 1
Hi Mindfulness Community, what are you doing to help with your mindfulness?
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1- Mindfulness meditation audio exercises on 7 cups. Also, some youtube videos.
2- practice them myself alone .. watch my breath. Observe my feelings.. let go..watch the surroundings..live in the very present moment.
3- clear my mind to the beginner's mind state.. no prejudice !!
Yeah! Doing it every now and then helps to relax, be grounded and somehow realistic...even get inspired somehow!
@mindtalk123
That is great to hear that you have been listening to the 7 cups mindfulness meditations and youtube videos. Which one do you like the best?
Watching your breath and observing your feelings and letting things go is really important, Using your senses of your sourroundings and living in the moment are really great coping skills to have and sometimes are hard for us and we just need to keep practicing it and it gets easier or time the more that we work on it.
Clearing your mind of things and setting your mind to the beginner's mind state and not using prejudice or judging yourself is important to help reset your mind.
Mindfulness does help people relax and ground and sometimes does get us in that inspired moods. Glad to hear that you have been using this coping skill. Keep up the great work!
Today is the beginning of my favorite month of the year and also one of my most creative. I have lots of writing in the works and connecting with other folks within the community. My plans are to check in with myself to make sure that I'm in a good headspace, evaluate feelings while I'm there and spend more time in self-compassion.
@NowhereNever156
I think October is really creative also and here all the trees change colors which is so pretty. Sounds great that you are writing and hope you get them all done. Connecting with others is very important for our social environment also. So glad to hear that you are checking in with yourself and in a good headspace by evaluating your feelings. Spending time in that good space doing self-compassion helps a lot.
A good feelings chart can be found here.
@DanaMH
Wow Dana this is great and thank you! Well for me I have now on my 3rd week of self care on the weekends. I know I can't do it the whole weekend but most of it. I find this very hard at times-but then I focus on WHY I am self caring on the weekends. So far 3 weeks and its ok
@RumpleSteeleSkin
That is so awesome that you have accomplished 3 weekends so far and taking time for yourself doing self-care and asking that "Why" question to yourself when needed. Totally get the hard part and focusing part due to my family obligations sometimes that trump what I would like to do during my "Me time".
@DanaMH
I don't mind sharing my self care weekend with folks. But they too need to be aware and considerate of this I think. Also folks on here that don't respect when folks go on self care break. But then again that is where I have to make sure my boundaries are in place
@RumpleSteeleSkin
Totally agree with you and boundaries are really important. I have been setting lots of boundaries lately.
@DanaMH
Dana I could remember when I didn't have not 1 boundary. Didn't know what they were. Then all chaos and I always wondered why. Once I put them boundaries in and followed them-wow it's heaven. Well less stressful I say!
@RumpleSteeleSkin
I totally agree with that. I learned about them myself a few years ago from my therapist.
Dana
Hi Mindfulness Community, what are you doing to help with your mindfulness?
Taking my time this week, particularly in the weekend
