Mindful living

So I decided I was going to change my life. First thing I needed to do was to calm down.

But how do you do that?

One of my colleagues was leading a meditation session once a week during lunch breaks. That got me started, but I needed more.

Among the participants was somebody who was very enthusiastic about something called Mindfulness.

I bought a book about it and started reading. It immediately made sense. Living in the present instead of the past or future was really appealing to me. Up until then the present had been the least of my worries.

Being non-judgemental was another element I immediately liked. I have always been my worst critic. This prevented me from doing what I like. Whether it is travelling or showing my photos to the outside world.

Around the same time someone posted a link to the Mindfulness summit at LYL Global community. I subscribed and received loads of free stuff including a link to the 'Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction' course.

This course is modelled on the program founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

It has all the practices of a face-to-face MBSR program and a lot of explanatory texts and videos.

Since yesterday I am doing the meditations of week six. The Mountain and Lake meditations were introduced.

These meditations are working miracles, because being part of nature always calms me down.

Mindfulness definitely agrees with me.

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