Posts Tagged ‘also….’

25 Jul

The Craving Mind by Judson Brewer

Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: , , , .

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In his book In This Very Life, the Burmese meditation teacher Sayadaw U Pandita, wrote,

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“In their quest for happiness, people mistake excitement of the mind for real happiness.”
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We get excited when we hear good news, start a new relationship, or ride a roller coaster.
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Somewhere in human history, we were conditioned to think that the feeling we get when dopamine fires in our brain equals happiness.
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Don’t forget, this was probably set up so that we would remember where food could be found, not to give us the feeling “you are now fulfilled.”
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To be sure, defining happiness is a tricky business, and very subjective.
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Scientific definitions of happiness continue to be controversial and hotly debated.
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The emotion doesn’t seem to be something that fits into a survival-of-the-fittest learning algorithm.
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But we can be reasonably sure that the anticipation of a reward isn’t happiness.
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Continued
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13 Jun

A natural state of mind?

Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: , , , , , .

  
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“Thinking is the natural activity of the mind.
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Meditation is not about stopping your thoughts.
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Meditation is simply a process
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of resting the mind
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in its natural state,
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which is open to and
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naturally aware of thoughts,
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emotions, and sensations
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as they occur.”
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– Eric Swanson, Yongey Rinpoche Mingyur –
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15 Mar

This Is Something I Am Going To Ask Everyday

Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: , , , , , , .

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“In the end
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these things matter most:
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How well did you love?
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How fully did you live?
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How deeply did you let go?”
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1 Nov

My external search for happiness, found only suffering and sadness, Fear and regret,

Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: , , , , , , , , .

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Diligently, I pursued happiness (success), financially, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Unfortunately happiness did not inhabit external things or people like this.
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We are taught to sacrifice, study hard, persevere, get a good education first, leading to a lucrative and prominent career, a house, cars, security, titles, positions.
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We are devastated to find no peace of mind, only confusion and drama after all that achievement.
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Facts:
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None of us has any control over life.
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None of us know what tomorrow holds, or even the next hour.
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Life is not safe and we are vulnerable.
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Life is awkward and we experience loss.
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We all die, suffering then is eventual, inevitable.
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Acceptance is the door to happiness.
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Accepting life, right now, in its entirety, lets us exist in the same time frame as happiness. A great start.
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I accept the risk, the chance of ridicule by others, the chance of failing, the chance of being criticized, as part of life.
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I accept there will always be detractors, assholes, people who do not like me (us), they do not have the power to dim my happiness light.
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We carry happy with us, created from our daily actions and beliefs.
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12 Sep

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.. this is the mindfulness based therapy I used for pain and PTSD

Posted by Marty in Chronic Pain. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , .

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Undefeated Mind:
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“Acceptance and commitment therapy proposes that by fully surrendering to pain, the sufferer can paradoxically prevent himself from being defeated by it.
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Such acceptance, his therapist had said, while having little power to decrease his pain, might have great power to decrease his suffering.
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For one thing, accepting his pain might enable him to stop making futile efforts to avoid it and perhaps to start doing things he wanted, like going back to work.
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Also, she suggested, clinging to the possibility that he might still avoid his pain could also be engendering fear—fear that he might not avoid his pain—which could actually be intensifying the unpleasantness of his pain”.
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This works for trauma fears also.
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