Re: Mindfulness

[Anonymous]

I tried to wean myself off asthma meds after doing an intensive yoga teacher training involving a lot of breath practices. But this past year, I started to have problems again, didn’t think it was asthma since the symptoms were not the same. My doc put me on a new asthma med and it’s helped tremendously. She says “if you have a physical problem with your lungs, no amount of yoga breathing is going to change that”. So I resigned myself to the fact that I need meds for some of my health issues, including ADD.

The thing about mindfulness is that it does require effort to practice (and not let the mind run away with thoughts and emotions), but mindfulness practice itself doesn’t really require effort. It’s just becoming aware, this is our natural state of mind, effortless awareness.

I could add a quote here, but it would thoroughly confuse you.

I recently met a student of this meditation teacher, whos book I am reading right now p it’s called The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. Here’s a link to it on amazon.uk http://www.amazon.co.uk/Joy-Living-Unlocking-Science-Happiness/dp/0553824430/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312995269&sr=8-1

He talks about some very simple practices that you can do to learn how to build your awareness without effort. Here’s a link to a YouTube video, try it. It may seem very simple but it’s actually a very profound practice. http://youtu.be/3H5Jufpm8sk

Interestingly enough, he suffered from panic attacks as a young boy, and learned how to overcome this through the meditation practices he had been taught by his father and teachers.

Hope that helps! I can’t help you with the issues surrounding the riots in London. I remember we were in Ireland visiting an aunt when we heard about the subway bombings, and it was terrifying to hear about it on the Sky News.

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