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Restarting daily mindfulness practice (crazypeople.online)
submitted 5 days ago by scrungle@crazypeople.online to c/mentalhealth@lemmy.world
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Hello! I'm a resident in counseling who's been lurking around on Lemmy for a while and I want to use this lovely community to both uplift myself and others. I had a period of time in graduate school where I was able to maintain daily meditation sessions, but with the stress of entering the workforce a lot of my good habits fell by the wayside.

It's time to fix that.

For my first exercise today I spent some time this afternoon in my yard listening to birdsong - I could hear 5 different birds, even though I'm not sure what species they were other than whippoorwills and cardinals! I love feeling like these cute little guys are my neighbors, maybe I should put out some seed for them.

How do you use mindfulness in your own life? Would this community be interested in daily mindfulness check-ins? How else can we uphold each other as a community?

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[โ€“] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm a big fan of walking meditation. I sometimes do still-posture meditation, particularly at night when I am troubled by unceasing thought, but it's not nearly as pleasant as walking with an empty head, seeing without looking and hearing without listening, feeling my footfalls and the motion of my body through the air. It's harder when it's hotter than Satan's swampass outside, but I still get something out of it. Being present isn't just about feeling nice things, it's about feeling what's present.

[โ€“] scrungle@crazypeople.online 2 points 5 days ago

This was always my favorite one at retreats, I try to walk mindfully at least a few minutes whenever I step out for a walk! The only time I've seen the bears near me was while doing this. It's oddly felt to me at times that the more I intentionally put myself into the present, the more the world has to show me (clearly just me paying more attention to everyday stimuli I guess lmao)