(July 6, 2016 at 1:50 am)LivingNumbers6.626 Wrote:(July 5, 2016 at 10:08 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: I get into a "mindful" zone when I'm playing violin. Maybe it's meditation but I don't think of it that way. When I hear people talking about meditation, even Zen Buddhism-type meditation, it usually veers into a conversation spirituality or religion.
Don't have to call it meditation...maybe mindfulness? I used to play the piano regularly and found that often when i played all things disappeared and all my mental faculties were focused on one thing: piano. By definition, from what I understand, this could also be considered mindfulness.
To me, mindfulness and meditation are two different things. The first is the act of observing the mental experience from a point of heightened objectivity; the latter is letting go of personal experience for a bit. They're related, no argument there. My opinion only, of course.
