These thoughts and emotions we get can really do us in if we let them. For the last 9 months or so I have been attending a mindfulness meditation group one night a week and it has really helped me.
Mindfulness is being aware of what is going on and trying to stay in the present moment. People can go through their lives on automatic pilot, they could be eating, driving or in a conversation but their minds are somewhere else. Their mind is usually in the past or in the future when they believe they will be happy. You have only got right now to be happy in so why dwell on the past or wait around for the future happiness you hope to get.
Alot of people say they don't have time to meditate everyday, however you don't have to sit down to be meditative. If you are mindfull you can be aware of the emotions as they arise and stop yourself from getting too upset or angry or resentfull etc. By focusing on what you are doing as much as you can, ie. being mindfull of what you are doing, your mind will not stray off into sensitive areas that cause the suffering as much as it would when you weren't being mindfull. Terminal patients, lifers in jails and Catholic school students here in sunny Queensland are being introduced to mindfulness. I personally have found that if practiced it can change your life for the better. Of course old habits die hard so it's not all bliss.
Have a great time with the kids this weekend I've got my four for the day tomorrow and am really looking forward to it.
