Mindfulness Daily Check-In April 17, Tuesday
Hello there, Welcome to Mindfulness Community!! 
What emotion are you feeling?
We're made up of different emotions. Everyday we experience different emotions. Grief is one of the emotions. None of us are exempted from feeling this emotion. Grief is one of strongest emotion that penetrates the depth of our hearts. Here, the role of mindfulness come into play. Practice of it allows you a way to turn toward daily living from the darkness of grief,
Mindfulness is about cultivating emotional well-being and practice presence of senses in NOW. Researches shows that mindfulness allow any individual through various stages of grief and reducing the associated anxiety and depression. It helps one to return to one's true selves.
So, mindfulness seems like a blueprint which can help us to navigate our emotions in a better way and experience them.
How mindful are you about your emotions? What's your way to practice it? Share and teach me. Looking forward to learn from you.
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@ASilentObserver
Good one Obs!
I think is very important to emphasize -- label your emotions, NOT YOU. You are not you're emotions -- you have emotions, you can address emotions, you can assess your emotions but I think letting the negative ones take seed and burrow deep and multiply -- that's the battle and seems to happen in a blink of a eye sometimes.
We are creatures of passion -- that means we can feel all levels and all kinds of emotions. Even negative emotions can be beneficial -- they're part of our fight or flight mechanism. It's when we stay in the constant frenzied hyper-vigiliance mode with our emotions that things really take a turn for the worse. I think it's trying to disarm the hyper-vigiliance mode that takes work for me -- pausing, asking questions, weeding through things (even if it means writing it down scrap paper and shredding it to get it off my mind - or burning, or chopping it with scissors - the physical act seems to be most cathartic for me) and looking at what's left - live with it, set it aside, or table it and come back and look at it again later.
I think denying an outlet for our emotions - be it sports, art, music, cooking, whatever - doesn't help us in coping or overcoming, it just lets it perk longer. That's what I'm thinking at this phase right now in my own path.
The tumbleweeds have snared the train of thought... I'm not sure where I was going with this... so maybe I'll come back if I remember.
@diplomaticconfucious very good points. Yes we are not our emotions. The emotions I think of as the ocean we swim in. Thanks for your mindful post.
@soulsings
Love the ocean analogy!
@diplomaticconfucious thanks it just came rolling in :D
@soulsings
Now I'm thinking about Adele... Rolling in the Deep. ::heads to youtube and pumps the volume::
A ballad about destructive love ripe with emotions and reclaiming the self... kinda' apprapoe for this thread - minus the destructive love :D
@diplomaticconfucious Thank you Diplo. Glad to have your thoughts and do agree that we should label our emotions, not us. Wonderful thoughts. <3
My emotions are all of the board trying to figure out what is going on with my body and why my medical team isn't doing anythng about it.
@DanaMH I am sorry you are feeling things are so turbulent. Hope you find a safe harbor.
@DanaMH I am sorry to hear about it Dana. I hope you get the assistance and feel better soon. Sending hugs <3
@ASilentObserver
HIya baby eliLove love loooooove this!!! Did I say I loved this???? I do agree grief is the hardest to deal with. Today I have a challenge of mixed emotions dealing with clients and their situations in life. Wish there can be more done for them and the families do more. I do embrace the emotions when I can, but some I just let be and let them do what they need to. I really needed to read this today. thnak you
@RumpleSteeleSkin Glad to hear your thoughts Rumple. Thank you for sharing your insights with us. <3
@ASilentObserver nice reminder to stay in the boat and float on your emotions not dive into the waters and hope you stay afloat. Mindfulness can keep us safe and afloat even in stormy seas.
@soulsings Agree Soul. That's true. Thank you for the amazing views.
@ASilentObserver - this is one I have to come back to again, over and over....
@KrinkTheMellowUnicorn Thank you Krink <3 Good to see your comment. :)
I feel a kind of grief sometimes. Not of losing anyone significant to me. I grieve for the years I lost to depression. I grieve the carefree nature my relationships use to have. I have to accept that my past has ‘yucky moments in it and sometimes when that grief comes to visit it is futile to resist it. I just have to sit with it for a little while and let it pass.
@Longing4peace I am sorry to hear it Peace and agree with you, it will pass. We all are with you. Hugs <3
@ASilentObserver Thank you very much for this post. Right now, I'm feeling sleepy at this moment and will be going to bed soon. 😴
@essdee Aww Dee.<3 Hope you had a good sleep. Thank you for the kind words. <3 Glad to see you here
