The other side of the coin

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There is other aspects of living that often many of us miss or choose to ignore. There is the yang, the exhale, the push, the positive space, the act, and the spoken that we all engage in, but there is also the yin, the inhale, the pull, the negative space, the react, and the unspoken that also needs attention. Here we will learn to know what mindfulness is.

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I don't practice often. But sometimes I do, especially within the last few years, since now I have kids. I know me now as mortal. There is a bit of fear what tomorrow may be. A dragon or a rabbit. So I have been paying attention to the moment, when I can. Once again not always, but more so now.

This is very true when I fish. I get up at 5am while it's still dark and drive 40 minutes west to a massive yet quiet lake. Takes a long time to get to her shore, maybe 25 minutes through the darkness of the canopy of old trees but this very quality weeds out many people from visiting Wachusetts Reservoir.

Here, when I walk... I hear my breath. I feel perspiration build on my forehead. I hear the leaves crack and bristly under my footsteps. I hear noises, some familiar, some not, but this is when I feel quite alive. All sense awake.

I read this earlier but I want to share:
To understand mindfulness, imagine yourself doing a very, uninteresting thing, like eating an apple. Perhaps we usually just eat the apple and not pay attention to how it looks, how it feels in our hand or really how it tastes. We don't think of where it comes from and how long it has been around. We just eat it. An apple eaten like this is not a fulfilling experience. But don't blame ourselves, it's ok. We are just conditioned this way.

Next, we blame the apple. If only I had a banana or a juicy mango, then I would be happy. So we get a banana or a mango but again eat it the same way. Thus the cycle continues.

I am paraphrasing this, not my words.


-M

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Now apply this to how you eat on the food challenge. Why are you eating this? How does it taste? Are you hungry? Are you happy or sad? Does eating this make you happy and will you be happier for it? Or is there guilt? How do you feel after you have consumed that food?

-M

[dee]

I had an interesting experience with this before. I was seeing a naturopath to work through some food/skin/mood/weight issues and one of my tasks was to sit down at every meal, even snacks, at the table. To do absolutely nothing else but eat, put my fork down between bites. I noticed something really alarming and interesting. I wanted to shovel it in fast. One bite on top of the other. When I put my fork down and sat with myself as I chewed and ate my food the anxiety was extreme. On some occasions I wanted to cry even! I was like, oh man, f this. I didn't end up following through with the exercise, but this is something I am thinking of coming back to during this challenge. Maybe trying to figure out what is going on and get to the bottom of it. Just a tid bit to share, there are many levels and things going on around our food habits that we don't dare let come to the surface. Perhaps if we do, we can heal?!

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There is so much to explore.

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