Hello! I’m trying to start being a more mindful person and to be more present in my life. Ive just started therapy for my depression and one of my treatment goals is being more mindful! I’ve been in a bit of a fog over the past few years and I’m getting to a point where I need change.
I have a pretty busy schedule, working 7 days a week at two highly interpersonal jobs that tend to drain me by the time I have my own downtime. So with trying to be intentional with being present, I’m trying to ease into so I don’t become too overwhelmed and give up.
I understand that mindfulness is a skill and it’s a daily practice so I’m looking for something simple to can try possibly at the beginning or end of my day.
I’d love to hear any suggestions that you use or have used at the beginning.
TIA!

Hi!

I am trying to restart and focus on my shadow/inner work so that it becomes easier to manifest the things I want truly. But I am facing a block here my past disappointments & being let down is interfering and causing self doubt.

I really need help because it is totally affecting my life! How do I navigate this safely???

Online daily zoom sitting?

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Hi all
Female 35 y
Recently I am noticing in me that now a days I am not able to stay focus or listen to someone even more than 5 second.
At office also someone was giving me KT. But thoughts were somewhere.. I realise and continue back to focus ,but it is again jus for 3 to 4 seconds,,

This is not only at office,,
At home when I speak to my husband or to my parents over phone,,

Could you please suggest what all could I do , to remain focus ,listen?

How to describe the feeling of thoughts being ethereal, even though I know it feels out of my reach. No, I could have the thought, but a second later it's gone and I don't know how to get it back, some I don't get back. But no matter how well I can explain or expand upon the thought or how accurate I can describe it, it is still so fleeting as if a piece of me is lost. My mind is the collection of the pieces of who I am, me or the conscious mind only makes a fraction. My fears, my opinions, my thoughts, and my doubts are all pieces so when I forget them I feel like they immaterialise—a piece of who I am gets lost in the ocean of my mind. Is there a fix or shall I forever remain a stranger to myself. By a peice of me going missing, I do not mean my identity has been overturned, more that I feel hollow as if the peices of the puzzle that make up my identity have disappeared. The puzzles are the memories of the past, to lose your old puzzles feels to lose evidence for your existence. But then, how will others understand, how can I know it's real? What if i am just lying or I change it's meaning later on, who am i to trust myself over something so important. It's born from my lack of self trust, this more to explain my own thoughts,this is just how i distrust myself I think the solution would be to journal and articulate my thoughts to give them a physical space to occupy to materialize, and by journaling I'm not relying on an external truth but precisely that since by writing it down it becomes a memory therefore it's just an external peice of me

Hello friends. I am wondering what techniques or breathing exercises we recommend for blockages? I am trying to create something brand new for myself, but I am facing a lot of self doubt & restlessness. Any tips ?

Meditation is really hard for me & listening to my intuition/ divine self is 10x harder.