Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...

[Joods]

I've always done the deal where I get two pairs of glasses for the price of one.

Plus, I have contacts.

I wish it were that easy. I'm on state insurance so I can only buy what they cover once a year. And the two places I can go to that take my insurance won't give me extra coverage for breakage, even if I wanted to pay for it.

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[Thumpalumpacus]

Holy macro!

[Joods]

Holy shit. Why did my phone do that? Ugh.

Can a mod please fix that?

[Joods]

CIJS

I hate my stove. I've been cooking since I was ten years old and have cooked on all kinds of stoves but this is the first one to give me issues.

I managed to smoke up the kitchen and living rooms and I scorched breakfast.

[Edwardo Piet]

Mindfulness is not about focusing on one's thoughts. It is about establishing distance from one's emotions for the purpose of obtaining a more objective viewpoint ... With the object of letting go those emotions so that they don't define us.

True. But being mindful of our emotions and being mindful of our thoughts is very connected. When we notice we're feeling crappy we also may notice we've been engaging in negative self-talk for the past 15 minutes and believing every word of our narrative even when it's often a very biased and exaggerated perspective.

So maintaining an objective distance from our emotions is partially about being mindful of our thoughts/self-talk, I reckon.

I do find it helpful to be mindful of my thoughts... but only briefly. This is why I don't like meditation... I think it's only helpful to catch myself when I'm engaged in negative self-talk so I can redirect my focus to something more positive and rational.

So I think being mindful of our emotions and keeping an objective distance from them and being mindful of our thoughts and keeping an objective distance from them are very connected. Often I think our emotions are there to warn us when our automatic thoughts are on the wrong track.

Mindfulness is especially helpful for O.C.D. because O.C.D. is all about non-automatic thoughts straining to control uncontrollable automatic thoughts that the O.C.D. sufferer is overly averse to.

Now... whilst I think stopping to re-direct my thoughts to help get my emotions back on track and my mind more rational is helpful... I think my negative emotions are the best pre-warning for that purpose. My perspective is that emotions are there to let me know I'm off-track.

Now mindfulness of my experience as a whole as opposed to just my thoughts or my emotions... living in the moment. That's something I love.

This is just my take on it. We often are expressing the same viewpoints in different ways, hehe.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I hope things get better for you.

[Edwardo Piet]

Thank you. I'm doing well right now

Enjoying the moment and ignoring the past and future. Tryin' t' relax.

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Music sure helps me relax and CIJS I fucking love Porcupine Tree and I fucking love this song:





Lyrics:

"Always in my thoughts you are
Always in my dreams you are
I got your voice on tape, I got your spirit in a photograph
Always out of reach you are

Cold inside my arms you are
Simple like a child you are
I remember when you took my hand and led me through the rain
Down inside my soul you are

The more I show the way I feel
The less I find you give a damn
The more I get to know
The less I find that I understand
Innocent, the time we spent
Forgot to mention we're good friends
You thought it was the start of something beautiful?
Well think again.

Mother lost her looks for you
Father never wanted you
I trust to love and then I find you never really felt the same
There's something in your heart so cruel"

Live version:

[Regina]

CIJS - I made dinner for you while you sat on your lazy arse and played PS4, don't get angry when I pinch a slice of that pizza that I spent 30 minutes waiting to cook before I made myself something.

"But it's my dinner! ... and it's not done how I like anyway!"


I made it. Get off your arse and make yourself something if you want it done right.

[Mystical]

Feel better, Hammie

Regina, I can't help but to think your posts in "what are you doing" and here are related? x)
See now I both want to smoke a blunt, and eat pizza!

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Nymphadora! Feel better too! Back problems are arguably the worst problems!

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CIJS

Just leave me alone. Don't 'like' my shit, don't talk to me. Don't talk about me. Don't cause me anymore drama. I was here long before you came along side by side with my husband, and I'm not leavin. I simply wish to ignore your existence if you don't mind, thx

LUCKIE

[Shell B]

Evie, I just want to point out that meditation isn't about catching the thoughts or mindfulness only in that moment. Meditation is practice so you are better at mindfulness when you are having a tough time. It's just like practicing any other skill.