Practical Mindfulness

[Luna-]

An excellent article from a bipolar blog, on the subject of depression and mindfulness:

Practical Mindfulness: The New Witness Protection Program

Mindfulness: a straightforward tool to help abate depression? .

By Victoria Maxwell.

For about 3 hours now, I've been sitting cross legged on my green comforter, staring at the TV. Someone, a woman, with too much lipstick and over-plucked, penciled-in eyebrows squeaks and hiccups about the ‘greatest' buy shoppers could ever hope for. Something about this season's must-have girdle that sweats away fat. Oh gawd. I am watching... The Shopping Channel.

Then I notice that familiar feeling that's been sinking into my chest, dawning into my arms, and trailing into my legs. What I fear and respect most shows its edges: Depression.

But I've learned that doesn't mean I will spiral out of control, descend under its black sheet. If I gently albeit nervously invite the demons in for tea and watch them, the power they threaten to hold over me dissolves. Or at least lessens. I have learned this through the art of mindfulness.

Read the rest of the article here.

[finding my way]

This is a great article, Luna! Shifting out of "mean mind" may be all a person needs sometimes to get to mindfulness:o. And I like your signature!!!

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom” ~ Victor Frankl