Mindfulness Daily Check-In May 20, 2018
Happy Feed the Soul Sunday, Mindfulness Family 
We are all battling something; it may be a mental illness, or it may be a difficult relationship or situation. For today's check-in, lets discuss how we use mindfulness to cope with what we are currently battling.
How do you use mindfulness to cope with your mental illness or a struggle that you are facing right now?
Whenever I experience intrusive thoughts from OCD, I use mindfulness by accepting and being non-judgmental about having the disturbing thought, recognizing and understanding that I am not the thought and that the thought will pass.
Share your mindfulness techniques/tips if you feel comfortable!
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@EmunahHere Hi Emunah! How are you? I hope you are doing well and hope you had a lovely weekend! 
How do you use mindfulness to cope with your mental illness or a struggle that you are facing right now?
OCD is difficult to deal with, and I am so glad that mindfulness helps you. I struggle with many illnesses: depression (bipolar type), anxiety (a weird combination of OCD and GAD), and body dysmorphic disorder. I try to not feed into any of these illnesses with their negative thoughts and emotions impact me, and so to fight against them to remain positive and happy, I practice mindfulness by focusing on my senses, being present, and trying to appreciate what is around me.
@SaimaK
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@EmunahHere Emunah! I'm so glad to hear that you had a really great weekend, and I did as well! Thank you! Thank you so much! It is a struggle at times, but I continue to try as best as I can! I hope you keep up the great work as well, and thank you so much for sharing your own struggles and how mindfulness helps you. I hope you have a wonderful day and take care!
@EmunahHere
Hia Emunah thank you for this wonderful check inMindfulness can help in so so many ways with mental health, but also understand with some it does not help. But man mindfulness you can just about do anything in your day and notice to be mindfulSee how easy it can be? Also to some it is very hard to just grab the concept of mindfulness. People share with me that it is the "inner personal" bad feeling they feel. Mindfulness is good and some are trying it.
How do you use mindfulness to cope with your mental illness or a struggle that you are facing right now?
I try and gather myself first when I get sensitive or other triggers go off. Since I use mindfulness alot it is like a habit and I just do it. But once I get myself checked out I try only to focus on details and what I can do to change. But well this I am still training on-lol
I also love watching pet vedios, certain music that taps into a positive feeling, I do crafts alot, walk my dogs and really notice my neighborhood more.There are many good things you are doing now and not even know ur being mindful
@RumpleSteeleSkin
Hey, Rumple! Great points <3
I think you raise a great point about mindfulness not seeming to work for some, and if that
My weekend is not long enough. I need to take more time off - just realized that typing it. I will find a couple days this week.
All I'm focusing on this week is breath work - deep breathing before and after each meal, each meeting, anything else I think as stressful. My center feels exhausted and spent. I'm not keeping up with my expectations for what needs doing on the weekend - chorewise or creativewise. Maybe those things don't need done, any of it. But if not that, what? I'm feeling lost.
Breathe. . .
@oakhenge
Hey, Oak <3 It's okay to be feeling this way, and I think it's great that you're working on breath work. Sometimes, we don't accomplish what we set out to in the timeframe that we set, so that's all right! It's okay to take your time and calculate a new timetable for your expectations. You're doing great <3
@EmunahHere
I appreciate you hearing me, listening. May your day be as full of appreciation and compassion.
@EmunahHere thanks for this thought provoking post. I try to use self talk to tell myself that something will work out and if I create enough space then I usually find things do work out.
@EmunahHere
I am glad that mindfulness helps you with your ocd.
How do you use mindfulness to cope with your mental illness or a struggle that you are facing right now?
I know I cannot push things right now, it is the wrong time, so i am trying to be as patient as possible. being grateful for the situation i am in now, helps a lot.
