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 Post subject: MINDFULNESS
PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:42 pm 
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Am beginning to learn about mindfulness, from the Internet, from Marsha Linehans' book (Skills Manual for treating Borderline Personality Disorder). Self-learning basically.

Here's some stuff I'm beginning to digest:

Mindfulness is awareness without judgment of what is, via direct and immediate experience
Example: You eat dessert and notice every flavor you are tasting, instead of eating the dessert while having a conversation and looking around the room to see who you know. If you’re being mindful, you’re not thinking about “is it good or bad to have dessert?” you’re just really having dessert.


Whatever your attention is on, that’s what life is for you at any given moment.


Mindfulness is awareness, without judgment, of life as it is, yourself as you
are, other people as they are, in the here and now, via direct and immediate experience. When you are mindful, you are awake to life on its terms – fully alive to each moment as it arrives, as it is, and as it ends.


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 Post subject: Re: MINDFULNESS
PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:44 pm 
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The practice of mindfulness is “the repetitive act of directing attention
to only one thing in this one moment”.


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 Post subject: Re: MINDFULNESS
PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:44 pm 
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http://behavioraltech.org/downloads/Min ... embers.pdf


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 Post subject: Re: MINDFULNESS
PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:50 pm 
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However, people who practice mindfulness will tell you that they get better at enduring pain, better at solving problems, better at not creating misery for themselves, and better at participating fully in those moments of life that are joyful.


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