[Marsha]
It might be difficult for those who have not practiced mindful-awareness to
imagine functioning without any accompanying linguistic narration
[Arlo]
To the contrary, I wish some people would go live their lives without any
accompanying linguistic narration.
Ron:
You said it,
It is what I have had to practice lately, by the simple virtue of just being
overwhelmed. I have had to make decisions on the fly
I have had to push through physical limitations all in a drive for
"betterness". I've taken the time to respond mostly by wanting
to say that I have been finding your posts very meaningful and also because
Marsha's use of the term mindful-awareness has
caught my attention.
I take her meaning of the term to imply a "carefulness" since both mindful and
aware equate to the same thing which would
lead me to conclude that a "mindful" awareness is a "careful" awareness and a
careful awareness is an awarness aimed at
betterness.
This bringing me back to my own aim at betterness, my careful awareness, my
push through physical limitations and my
cessastion of any accompanying linguistic narration. The "just do it." part of
the drive mostly achieved by an intellectual ideal
I have cultured, a "care" above all others that I must continually redefine and
clarify in order for it to hold the meaning required
for the drive to be executed and sustained.
It just makes me aware how important that intellectual ideal is, how its formed
and it's overarching aim.
For instance I was just made aware that in order to succeed at my aim of a
better life for my family I must also take
my own well-being into account. I had coped with the typical suffering and
reward type cycle, now I am faced with
re-thinking my reward structure and how I conceive of what "reward" really
means to me in my aim. Forcing me
to make the quality distinction between counter-productive rewards and
productive ones.
But it was when I could establish what I cared most about and why that the form
of the good became clearer to me
in that it influenced my perception of the immediate now and my participation
in it.
To me, this is practicing mindful awareness but somehow I get the feeling thats
not what she meant.
..
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