Mindfulness Daily Check-In Sept. 13, 2019
Waves at everyone in the Mindfulness Community 
Do you draw, paint or do any other kind of art or craft? If not, what would you like and could do and why?
I like fixing or building things, small and big, anything, wood, concrete, whatever material particularly when I feel low. It gives me a feeling of having accomplished something useful and increases my self-esteem.
What about you?
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I love to mend things too and do it when I am down. 
I have recently started to draw my problems before therapy rather than write them It is great!. It is freeing me up to feel the emotion better! How wonderful is that! 🌈
@indigoCup1959
Awesome that mending things and drawing helps you so much indigoCup.👍 It's good to have ways to express emotions instead of bottling them up.
@amiablePeace77 I LOVE to color! My mother in law and my best friend just recently bought me these abstract coloring books and I have been having the time of my life! What a great way to distress and be a kid again! It has done wonders for my anxiety and racing thoughts! I also love to meditate too. I do a daily guided meditation that really helps my depression.
@intelligentstar688
Depression can be so hard to deal with, it's wonderful that you found ways which take you out of that state into another one and let you feel like being a kid again. I am a fan of meditation too, helps in so many different ways! Do you have a favorite meditation?
@amiablePeace77 I do have a favorite meditaion! I use an app called Calm... I'm not sure if you've ever heard of it. I do these 10 minute guided meditations every day. They are led by a woman named Tamara Levitt. She is AMAZING! Each day there is a lesson she teaches along with the meditation. It's an abosluely incredible experience!
@intelligentstar688
Hey, I use that too, the free version, it's amazing. There are even very short meditations starting from 1 minute. I find that is a great idea to creat mini-habits for people starting with meditation to get into it. Usually I prefer the longer ones though but in the morning I use 10 min. too
@amiablePeace77 That is so great! I am so happy that it brings you as much joy as it brings me! Keep up the great work!
@intelligentstar688 I tried one of her meditations on you tube. It was helpful. Thank you.
@adventurousBranch3786 That is amazing! GREAT JOB! Doesn't it feel incredible? Tamara said in one lesson, "meditation is the 1% of your day that will uplift the other 99%"! So very true! All it takes is ten minutes a day!
@intelligentstar688 I'm going to keep trying to do it every day.
@adventurousBranch3786 I totally know you can do it!
@amiablePeace77
HI Peace thanks for this check inI love to do lots of arts n crafts. But lately I find myself to busy and when I stop I get in bed. Bu when I am doing well I like making blankets, doing diamond art, wood crafts and so on. I believe when doing this or other things you enjoy your whole self id flooding with mindfulness
@RumpleSteeleSkin
You are a very creative elephant! I experience too that when being creative one can fully experience and enjoy themselves in a mindful way.
I'd doing garden work during spring and summer season to keep myself in the positive environment when I happen to be going through hard day, which it helps me to think something different when I being focused on what I am doing in the garden area. For current season, I do try to learn how to do the type of wood hobby to keep myself busy during fall and winter season to build or repair the broken wood part. I am trying to make some room in the basement for wood hobby to be set up, and keep it up with it once it being completed to be ready to be used.
@kindTurtle1458
Garden work is very therapeutic to me, a good way to spend time outside, very calming and being fully present with what you do. Awesome!
It makes sense thinking what to do when it's getting too cold for the garden, good idea to set up a "workshop" in the basement. Wish you lots of fun with it. Maybe you find some ideas in the Hobby Zone https://www.7cups.com/home/hobbyzone/.
@amiablePeace77 when life gets hard I like cleaning up my room.
@soulsings
Me too soul, it's a very good distraction and gives me the feeling of having done something meaningful instead of withdrawing or get into a "freezing" stage where nothing is possible anymore.
I find putting on some good music helps too.
@amiablePeace77 yes music definitely helps
@soulsings
yes it does and you can even have a dance with the broom
@amiablePeace77 so you always have a dance partner with the broom nearby
@soulsings
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@amiablePeace77 Hi, I am taking a class in Origami (Japanese paper folding).
@adventurousBranch3786 that sounds wonderful!
@adventurousBranch3786
sweet - always admired how they do these wonderful things with paper. How is it going?
@amiablePeace77 It's going alright. I made a simple swan last week.
@adventurousBranch3786
Nice Branch, love swans, so gracious animals and the symbols of light
@amiablePeace77 I absolutely LOVE to color! My mother in law and best friend recently bought me abstract coloring books for my stress and depression! They also got me these color pencils that have like every color possible! It is so relaxing and a great way to end the day. I find all my stress melting away when I start my page.
@intelligentstar688
Those are good friends to have indeed, they truly care. Colouring makes so much fun and so peacefu. What is your favorite motif?
@amiablePeace77 The floral designs are by far my favorite! They are so intircate and beautiful and you really have to focus so you don't color outside of the lines! hahaha
@intelligentstar688
nice, I love floral designs too
