Is it too much focus on awareness in regular daily life a bad thing when beginning mindfulness?
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Mindfulness, mindfulness -- what is this mindfulness? There seems to be a big and unfortunate misunderstanding about this.
For some reason many people think mindfulness means to intensely stare at whatever we are doing until our eyes pop out. "I must be aware! What am I doing now? I'm driving, I'm driving... I'm coding, I'm coding... I'm pooping, I'm pooping..." -- but this is not mindfulness, this is generation of anxiety.
The right mindfulness is mindfulness of the subconscious. Mindfulness of our "guts", mindfulness of our feelings, mindfulness of our mind "weather", mindfulness of our non-verbal intellect. When we always maintain such deeper connection with ourselves we can learn to heal our mental and emotional neuroses and recover our Buddha-nature -- our inborn power and sanity.
And in 21st century this means first and foremost recovering awareness of our body, because body is not just the window on the subconscious -- body is the subconscious. I recommend you to read the book "Touching Enlightenment. Finding Realization in the body" by Reginald A. Ray, Ph.D. a favorite student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
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If you use mindfulness to become aware, it is a likely occurrence that eventually things or events that have been buried will emerge. Some of these may be unpleasant but they must be faced or they remain as unfinished business. If mindfulness is practiced to the point where you can't do your job, relate to your friends and family, take care of your body, and lose the joy of living, then this is overdoing whatever you are practicing.
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When you are mindful you should be be mindful of the 4 Frame of Mindfulness. These are all tied with sensation. If you are looking at bodily posture or movement you sense this through your sense faculties. In once if comes in contact with the sense faculties you get a sensation as per dependent origination. Similarly for other frames of Mindfulness. You have to be mindful of the arising and passing away of sensations being equanimous. This has a very soothing effect.
Even a circus girl has to be mindful in order not to hurt or kill your self. This type of mindfulness does not reduce stress but creates more stress. So you should practice the right type of mindfulness which takes you out of misery than create more misery.
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