“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future..."
I could also feel depressed when I think about my future.
“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future..."
What if I told you that I already know why I hate my present and why I worry about my future with no need at all to look that deep inside myself?By being mindful you can actually see why you hate your present and why you worry about your future and there by change the way you react to such feelings and sensations happening in the present that have roots way deep in your conscious and sub-conscious parts of your mind.
Seriously, I like reading about meditation and I'm sure it is quite a beneficial activity when practised by normal people living normal lives. However, when everything around you is an utter mess, meditation just won't solve any problems per se and in the end you'll still be feeling as unhappy and agitated as you were from the very beginning.
Dear,Exactly. Meditation is not a "solve-all" tool. When I meditate say for 9 minutes, I get 9 minutes of peace. After that, it's back to the real world again, back to the chaos and utter mess.
“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
Exactly. Meditation is not a "solve-all" tool. When I meditate say for 9 minutes, I get 9 minutes of peace. After that, it's back to the real world again, back to the chaos and utter mess.
What if I told you that I already know why I hate my present and why I worry about my future with no need at all to look that deep inside myself?
Seriously, I like reading about meditation and I'm sure it is quite a beneficial activity when practised by normal people living normal lives. However, when everything around you is an utter mess, meditation just won't solve any problems per se and in the end you'll still be feeling as unhappy and agitated as you were from the very beginning.
Today i have been mindful of how meditation affects me. "Meditation" in my mind, can be almost anything you do, which allows the mind to escape the past & future (ie to get "lost" in the present moment). Even tv can be meditation if you can "lose" yourself in it fully. Currently my choice is simply laying in bed listening to fine classical-instrumental music; this is all i am capable of at present, due to my depression (just shows that there are "meditation" options, even for those in the most poor/dire of circumstances, or who find it really hard to "relax" enough to do "proper" meditation).But 'Meditation' is a generic name given by laymen like me may be for many different ways, techniques, types of practices out there. What suites one, may not suite the other. so there are so many types of meditation. you may keeps searching till you find the right one
Not quite sure where "Mindfulness" fits in yet, and how it relates to meditation. In Tolle's book, mindfulness appears to be a form of meditating (focussing) on the sensations of the "inner body"?.