Mindfulness Daily Check-In February 02
If you have not seen the 9 attitudes that lead to mindfulness, by Jon Kabat-Zinn, it is a very good introduction to the one thing we can change in ourselves: our attitude. If you missed it here is a link. https://youtu.be/2n7FOBFMvXg *
We can cultivate these attitudes in our lives.
Beginners mind is looking at each moment as fresh and new and free of expectations.
Non-judging is so basic to mindfulness. When we pay attention we see how all these judgments keep us from being in the moment.
"Acceptance is an active process." * Accepting things the way they are is an essential part of being in this moment.
"Letting go is the opposite of clinging" It can be difficult to let go when we are conditioned to cling to certain ideas and people, so some people find it is easier to focus on what the senses are telling us or our breath and we let go without trying to let go.
Trust is something we need to develop to trust ourselves and our body. We need to trust our breath and our hearts keep going. We give up worries when we learn to develop trust.
These are some of the attitudes we can cultivate in our lives. It is different for everyone.
What is your most challenging attitude to develop and or what is your greatest success in creating a new attitude.
For me having patience has been particularly challenging because I wanted to help others get over what they were going through. Everyone goes through things in their own way when they are ready. No forcing things. Of well that is my personal challenge.
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@soulsings
Hi souls thank you for this. I will have to watch this. I would say some of my greatest challenges would have to be my indecisiveness, my passiveness, and my confidence level. I'm starting therapy tomorrow and I'm trying to learn mindfulness techniques so hopefully that will help me with my challenges. I know it takes small steps, but I always feel like I should be farther than I am.
@Catlover1993 thanks for sharing your process with us. Unfortunately we are all plagued with expectations and judgments about who we are and hw we should be. Part of mindfulness is going beyond judgments. Hope you get a chance to hear Jon talk about that in the video.
@soulsings
Souls thank you for this check in. It was great-but I felt emotions in this-lol I don't know why I did
Maybe cause some of this I am working on a lot. Patience is sometimes my good point and sometimes will get me negative consequences in daily life. Thank you Souls for this reminder and I know I'm doing right as this is what I am working on with mindfulness
@RumpleSteeleSkin sorry you had emotions come up reading this checkin but we are all working on the practice of mindfulness so whatever gets in the way, will eventually come up for us. Hope you feel the joy!
@soulsings
Hey Souls no-no not bacd feelings. Like hmmm...."thinking" feelings almost like motivation or a "ping" of a direction in something I have been working on in my life. Nothing bad