trustingmind

Category: mindfulness

  • Practice diary: 5th October

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    A lot of people come to mindfulness classes because they want to deal better with their anxiety or poor mental health in their life. In my experience people who complete a mindfulness course come away with that; they have the skills and opportunity to see things and events in a different light. And from my…

  • Practice diary: 4th October

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    I ended yesterday’s post saying I was going to have a slow cup of tea. My good friend Alan asked me later “How did it go?” Well to be honest, I had a few sips and then drifted on to something else. So thanks to his unintended prod I thought I should try again. Rather…

  • Practice diary: 3rd October

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    We are a busy culture (part 2). When out walking I am thinking of cooking tea and not seeing the loosening leaves and their changing colours. Watching a favourite film I check my phone and miss a key scene entirely. Looking at the sunset I wonder about putting on a wash and leave the skyline…

  • Practice diary: 2nd October

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    We are a busy culture. When people have arranged to drop in to see me they are often have to work out when they can squeeze half an hour extra time into their day. After work? Before food shopping? On the day the in laws have the children? “They’ve cancelled the meeting Thursday I could…

  • Practice diary: 1st October

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    People pull some strange faces when I tell them I have made a playlist on Spotify for my funeral. But I think it is the sensible thing to do. All this ‘taking it easy’ time I have been fortuitously granted recently has given me the opportunity to think about the next years of my life.…

  • Practice diary: 30th September

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    Part 2 (part 1 was yesterday) It is very easy to be kind to someone. When I went into hospital it was my ex-wife who, with the aid of one of our children, sorted out a few clothes for me and brought me orange juice to the ward. That she was still able to be…

  • Practice diary: 29th September

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    Part 1 An old old friend rang me today. He was my best man when I married. That kind of old friend. We don’t talk often, though we both wish we did. I used to find this painful but I’ve learnt that the quality when we do connect floods the silent months between the love…

  • Practice diary: 28th September

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    I heard a golfer* describe preparing for a crucial put by saying “I couldn’t think anymore about it or I’d have wondered about every blade of grass, and that would have just been distracting.” The same goes for mindfulness. It can be a complex topic if you so wish, but ultimately it must be simple.…

  • Practice diary: 27th September

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    I’ve loved getting older. I bristle when people tell teenagers or those in their twenties “these are the best years of your life.” What a depressing way of looking at your time on this Earth. I like to think that as I’ve aged I’ve become a little wiser. Something Ive come to know slowly over…