Mind.Fully.Living

Mind.Fully.Living Helping you develop a daily meditation practice to live life fully. As more demand ensues, more offerings will be provided.

This page is meant to provide support and community for those interested in developing and deepening a daily, formal meditation practice. MindFullyLiving offers free 30-minute Weekday Meditations at 12pm CST every weekday via Zoom, consisting of guided meditation, teaching, discussion and Q&A's. If you're interested in personalized support or lead a group or business and want to improve your (group or employees') brain, focus, wellbeing and/or compassion - among many other historical and scientifically proven benefits to be explained during Weekday Meditations - reach out for a free consultation to schedule an interactive meditation workshop and/or ongoing meditation training.

01/02/2023

Team building at RGB Parkour Tour back in 2014. This is now available for purchase on print and a variety of other merch over in my RedBubble store. If you like the image, please consider making a purchase to help support me! :) https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/80237386?ref=studio-promote – Downl...

09/09/2022

Your brain has plasticity - the ability to structurally and functionally change itself! Here's an informative and readable article on one aspect of "neuroplasticity" by way of neurogenesis - the creation of new neuron (in your adult brain)!

The article identifies 6 action items:
1. Move your body
2. Deal w/ stress
3. Emotional regulation
4. Mindfulness meditation
5. Rest up
6. Challenge yourself.

https://foundations.koahealth.com/blog-post/neurogenesis-and-mental-health/ #:~:text=Practice%20mindfulness%20meditation.%20This%20centuries-old%20practice%20has%20been,lives)%20and%20increase%20melatonin%20levels%20(that%20support%20neurogenesis).

08/29/2022

Almost live w/ Weekday Meditations! Today, intrapersonal attunement to enhance brain functioning, self-regulation and social engagement.

08/25/2022

Develop equanimity, even when disturbing thoughts arise, through mindfulness of mental activities. Join Weekday Meditations today as we observe the mind itself (12pm CST). Hope to see you there!

08/24/2022

Today, at Weekday Meditations, we mindfully explored the qualities of COAL, which are foundational in Mindfulness Meditation: Curiosity, Openness, Acceptance and Love. Coined by Dr. Daniel Siegel, COAL is inherent in pure attention, which is what we practice in Mindfulness Meditation. Kabat-Zinn defines Mindfulness meditation as “the kind of awareness that emerges when paying attention to the present moment on purpose, non-judgmentally to things as they are.”

If one explores attention closely enough they’ll recognize attention has no preferences (attachments or aversions), which can be huge for our mental health. If we're in a difficult situation we have no control of, practicing mindful awareness dispels the additional pain of doing whatever we can to avoid the pain or dwelling on it as if dwelling is an effective problem-solving strategy.

Mindfulness is not an avoidance strategy or escape from our difficult situations. Instead, it enables us to see it clearly and when we see things clearly we handle them far more skillfully - with curiosity, openness, acceptance and love.

I hope to share this practice, time and space with you!

08/21/2022

Already mindful of the urges to check Facebook for updates. Being someone who hasn't been on social media much, this is a brand new experience. But having urges isn't a problem. This is exactly what it's like to be human; social media is just another opportunity for the mind to attach itself to things. It's whether or not we are aware of these attachments (what it feel like in the body, what the mind says, what emotion shows up) that enables a skillful response or not. Once mindful recognition can be sustained there can be impulse without action. One can watch the impulse fade from experience and act with wisdom and compassion. Maybe this could be a useful way of being...😉

08/21/2022

In terms of emotional habits, when somebody insults me or does something I find offensive, I feel anger, and then maybe think, ‘How could he do that? That’s disgusting! He was supposed to be my friend but he’s betrayed me, he’s disappointed me, I’ll never forgive him! No, I’m not even going to speak to him again ― but I’m going to confront him! I’m going to seek revenge!’ and I can go on and on like that.

Then the rational mind says, ‘Oh, just forget it! He’s trying his best,’ and there is a feeling of magnanimity, a grand gesture of understanding.

But you can’t sustain that for long before it goes back into, ‘How could he? I’ll never forgive him.’ And there is a struggle between the magnanimous, generous ‘Forgive! He’s just doing the best he can. Don’t make it personal. We all have our bad days . . .’ and ‘I’LL NEVER FORGIVE HIM!’ At least this is how my mind works.

I have heard all the good advice, but the hurt, the pain of disappointment, the sense of betrayal is still there. So I contemplate these things.

And then in this emptiness or this ‘sound of silence’, the thinking process stops.

~ Ajahn Sumedho

Buddhist Wisdom 🙏

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