Saturday, October 20, 2012

Mindfulness And The Monkey Mind

I am attending a tech/blogger conference and am loving it. I am not a real tech person--more like tech lite. This session was about being in the here and now more. Something we all need to do more. Disconnect more. Be in nature more. Multi-task but take breaks from it. Strive for work/life balance. But that is a process you are always going through. You always have to strive for work/life balance. If you achieve it one day, you may not achieve it the next. When you are stressed--do something about it. Detach, slow down, dig deep. Your life is more than your work.

The monkey mind will take over your mindful state and make you distracted sometimes. We then are not so mindful and not so much in the now. Work to keep the monkey mind at bay, but also be compassionate about your monkey mind. It happens to all of us, the speaker said.

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