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Now displaying: October, 2020

Welcome to Mindfuling, the podcast with Paul M. Cheevers

Mindfulness meditation is not a thing — it is an activity of doing. It is key to an eight faceted practice capable of freeing us from discontent. Being mindful is being deeper than the ocean, stronger than practiced aversion, quicker than chronic bad habits, and easier than pi(e)!

Related: Paul’s personal website: Cheevers.webnode.com  |  Twitter: @pmcnow  |  Ello: PM Cheevers  |  To triangulate where Paul teaches in the real world, go to SSIMC.org

Oct 30, 2020

Practice daily a little bit. A pop song's timing, what will fit comfortably on the B side, or even the A side. You have to get regular, daily. Gradually this will grow in time and maybe even frequency. Eventually you will WANT to practice intensively for hours of the days but start slow and steady. Meditate. You don't have to turn it into a big production to get started but eventually don't be surprised if your sitting for sides of long players, CD lengths even, Operatic Cycles...

Keywords: Ramones, Wire, Buzzcocks, Breath, anapanasati, Buddha

Oct 22, 2020

Outside and going easy on the knees but still in a squat and listening to the leaves fall down. Soft gaze, not scanning, relaxed and at ease in and width. A short practice.

Keywords: knees, earth, close, easy, fall, listening to what comes and goes, traffic, crickets, birds, outside, connected 

Oct 16, 2020

Pain is inevitable for all but the tiniest fraction of humans. Get to know it through practice, s l o w ly, over time and it does not get worse. It doesn't morph into suffering. But you have to practice when the pain is relatively low but a real physical experience. 

Keywords: dukkha, mindfulness, meditation, cabinetry, caffeine, allergies, foggy, neti, sensation, foundation, breath

Oct 9, 2020

The option other than "thinking" your way out of anxiety takes practice. Mindfuling is that practice.

Keywords: Dog, Past, Obsessions, preparation, overdoing-it, meditation, breath, body, posture, ease, awareness

Oct 1, 2020

Gathering your attention with the help of light. Using the sense door of sight encounter light, and notice when you have started to leave the light. Not a figuring, out or in.

Keywords: Concentration, sight, definition, phenomena, ease, insight, ssimc, classes

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