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We are so different...I mindfully eat chocolate.
Thank god I'm not the only one! I'm really very boring too, in fact my to do list is often more exciting than my life. Well it must be because that's what I'm usually thinking about. I prefer the other Ryan variety ... Reynolds.
I'm sure there's nothing wrong with eating chocolate with Ryan Gossling while wearing a hot red frock - lol - although I do have to agree, Ryan Reynolds would be nice too.
I think it's about balance. Balance between the mindfulness and the mindlessness.
Ah, I haven't been practicing the mindfulness quite as much as planned - so that's all in theory.
Not so keen on any of the Ryans though... Maybe Ryan Gosling at a pinch?
oh bless your cotton socks - i think this about the best most cutest post i have read all day and i just want to give you a big hug!
I am totally mindless at the moment! I shouldn't laugh about the driving somewhere and wondering how you got there though, but it's tooooo true!
Oh gawd, I'm so confused.
I could be a lot more mindful!
I am a CHRONIC daydreamer.
And I stare at people without even realizing that I am doing it (I just find them so fascinating).
Dave constantly has to pull me up, as he thinks it's rude.
I guess I should be more mindful?
Yawn ;)
It's so true that kids make you aware how absent minded you really are. It had never occurred to me how mindless I was until my eldest started talking and I found I really had to 'be' in the present moment to avoid ignoring him (and the glorious questions that come one after the other after the other from the minute he wakes up). It takes a lot of practice. And I'm practising...
Yes, there are more TARDISes and much less washing in my head, but 'mindful' gets the chores done. Going to keep the daydreaming for when the kids have gone to bed, I think. Maybe that way my home will stop looking like one you might see on that tv show about hoarders :(
I mindfully baked cookies with Miss 8 today. Does that count?
U make me smile :))
Love it! Thank god it's not just me :)
I admit defeat, I read blogs where life is appleblossums and fairydust. I am mindful enough to acknowledge I must be an alien living on a hostile planet......thats not how we roll
I'm just reading up on meditation and being mindful so I don't have any helpful advice, sorry.
But good luck with your efforts!
I share your sentiment. I have to muster up lots of energy just to focus on what's really happening around me and be in the moment.
First i would totally love a red frock and either Ryan (leaning towards reynolds though).
As with everything I would love to find the middle ground (i am so average at everything else the middle ground is nice and cozy). I can't see myself practicing mindfulness with eating (i am a notorious scoffer and eat while doing other things 99% of the time) but I would love to focus more and be mindful when i am with my family
What does mindfulness mean?
This post made me laugh! I actually really, really like eating apples and explaining things to the kids. But I think that makes ME the boring one. I'm only capable of mindfulness in very small doses. The rest of the time, I live in France. With Ryan Gosling.
I probably daydream much more than I realise. The number of times I have 'come to' at the wheel and wondered how I got there, it's alarming. Such an interesting post, thanks for allowing me to think about my mindlessness.
There is a time and place.
I am mindful around all emotions and food, these days - gotta be.
One word of advice - avoid Plants and Zombies.
xx
This is funny, my counsellor is trying to teach me mindfulness at the moment, in that I need to be mindful of what is going on in my head and accept all the negative emotions without judging them as 'bad' just accepting them without dwelling on the behind story.
I'm still learning so I'm not good at explaining it yet but all it's been doing is making me feel like crap because instead of burying the emotions I am listening to them and then feeling all dreadful. So in my world, mindfulness is depressing!
Your mindfulness sounds like much more fun!
mindful is fine as long as you are VERY broad-minded
Hee hee.
Leave the foggy, filtering lens on - it makes everything pretty!
:-)
It's called being in the moment and yes it's a very difficult thing to do with our wonderful imaginations that can take us to so many amazing places. I feel for ya, I'm rarely in the moment myself. ;)
I am kind of a failed (but still going along with the trying) in the whole mindfulness thing too. Have you read buddhism for mothers? It's pretty amazing. If you're interested in that kind of thing. Kellie xx
Remember, I'm just Mrs Average and I have to Blog about something!
Giggle giggle... I live my whole life with my head in the clouds... It is so lovely up here but my children aren't here and I hear that I'll probably regret it later if I can't remember their lives. So I pop back down a little more now. I'm not minding it so much, it's showing me things I've never seen before and I kinda like the change. But I do beat a hasty retreat up again when it gets a little dull or hard to bear.
You are so bloody funny!!! Angry birds huh? Fruit Ninja rules here!
yep, I'm so not mindful. I'm off with Ryan eating chocolate in a black frock not red because black makes me look thinner. And it's long and not too clingy incase he sees all my flabby bits.
Stay as you are... being mindful is absolutely exhausting. gxo
You big dag!
There's mindfulness... and there's delicious daydreaming. And Ryan Gosling definitely falls into the latter category.
Look at those exquisite photos you took in December. You are mindful where it counts, lovely gal.
Mindfulness while washing the dishes and sweeping the floor is wasted energy in my experience. I'd much rather plug int he iPod and imagine I'll rocking it out with Asa.
I agree being mindful is a drag. It means you have to be aware of all the little....crappy things.
I think a balance of both is best, to be mindful about what needs to be done, so lists or reminders or 5 minutes in the morning spent planning out what you will need to do for the day, and then be mindless when going about it.
I'm not sweeping the floors I'm doing the tango with some hot latin bloke.
Ah, you make me laugh!
Mindfulness is totally boring.
I constantly look in the rearview mirror to check if the light actually was green. I've even driven straight past my house a couple of times.
When I mindfully pick up a piece of fruit to snack on, I sigh at the boringness of it and feel totally unsatisfied.
I'm now heading to mindlessly eat lunch with a cup of coffee, followed by a tim tam or 2 (or 3).
I may even mindlessly drink a glass of wine in front of the tennis tonight...
With focus being this year's word for me I have thought about maybe needing to be more mindful. But, I am glad for your warning. Maybe I will skip it ;)
Bron you are hilarious. I am finding it hard to get past Ryan Gosling to answer your question!
For me mindfulness is less about myself and more about actively absorbing everything that is going on around me.
Like when I am browsing Instagram and looking at photos while Mr 2 is playing trains next to me. Every so often I just stop, and look at him for a minute and look at how he plays. And take it in.
And then I go back to Instagram. I am pretty sure I am not doing it right either - but hey, it works for me. If I never stopped, the activities of my mind would drown me :)
Mindfulness is hard ... and you can't really learn it on your own. Have your learnt it with a psychiatrist and/or psychologist who has practised it themselves? That's the best way, and it really doesn't happen overnight. There is scientific proof is there that it works, even if you don't think it's working. I really must post on this sometime. Keep at it, there aren't many places in Australia where you can learn it properly without breaking the bank. I must admit I've lost the drive for it recently (pun intended) and I really need to do another supervised course, but I really don't have time in the next few months. But even 15 minutes a day is better than nothing. Good luck!
I'm so hopeless at mindfulness.
I tried it.
Just can't do it.
Like you, I prefer the world in my head...
x
Mindfulness has it days...but sometimes forgetfulness needs to be administered to get through the day...
I am a total daydreamer. I have been known to pass where I am going because I am lost in the daydream. I probably should practice mindfulness but then I would probably get depressed at my boring life.
I just do stuff to make the mindfulness easier - life has to be exciting to me, or I'm bored with it and will escape far too often (as in, wanting to run away to my imagination). That's probably just a sign of my lack of attention span, though, and hatred of boring reality!
You mean my dates with Ryan Gosling aren't real?
I'm a bit more mindless than mindful. Sorry, can't help.
Stick with The Gosling. And the frock. And the choc. I do mindful. It's intense, man *reaching for more coffee*
I love this post. Makes me feel not so bad for my wayward parenting moments, and my words with friends addiction, thinking of words rather then reading books to my kids!
I actually really love the idea of mindfulness but I am hopeless at practising it. When I did my meditation course which went for close to 12 months, at a time when I desperately needed it, I found myself practising mindfulness in some of the things that I did. I truly believe it made me more at peace, grateful and happy. I hope to get back there one day. xx
Maybe think about what you could change to make rl a bit more interesting? I often find that when i get absent minded its a good time to overthink the pathbi am on...
Bron! I'm not sure whether to laugh and agree, or to tell you that if you aren't enjoying living your life then you are doing it wrong :)
Seriously though, I read an article on webchild today (written by a friend of mine) that made me think of you http://www.webchild.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4350:a-moment-in-time&catid=19:stories&Itemid=185
Hope you have a beautiful weekend,
xx Sannah
I guess it depends what you are doing. There are some times during the day when mindfulness would drive me crazy, like putting my kids to sleep. It is much nicer to just sit their daydreaming and ignore the noise. But then comes my dance class and all of a sudden I'm the most mindful person in the world!
You are so funny... people are generally so seriously earnest about the benefits of mindfulness (even me!) so it's highly refreshing to read an alternative view.
But I am definitely with the mindful eaters of chocolates... where is my chocolate?
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