Mindfulness Mob - group Smiling Mind sesh
Yo everyone!
A few months ago, @Ben-RO and @j95 started up a thread where we could get together to do some mindfulness exercises together and chat about how it went. The thread was: Letting The Negative Self Talk Go
I found it really helpful and wanted to see if anyone's interested in starting back up.
What happens:
- Download the Smiling Mind app or go to the Smiling Mind website and sign up.
- Organise a time to meet up in this thread!
- At the chosen time, come here and have a quick chat about how everyone's feeling before trying a meditation.
- Choose one of the Smiling Mind meditation exercises to do.
- Do the meditation!
- After it's done, come back to the thread and have a quick chat about how you feel now, if there were any good bits, weird bits, general stuff you discovered during the meditation.
What we need to do first:
- Pick a regular day/time to run it! The previous one was every weekday at 5:30pm AEDT (Eastern Daylight Savings Time), but we can pick something else or maybe multiple options depending on what suits everyone now.
So who's up for it and when are you available? 
@FootyFan26 @letitgo @Stealth_ninja @Birdeye @N1ghtW1ng (because you either responded to or high fived my post in the bob section 
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@Ben-RO good example of a neg to pos there. Hope you can sort out some of that stuff.
@N1ghtW1ng bit of a mixture of good/not-good hey? For the fidgeting thing maybe sometime you could even make up your own meditation to do with noticing what your hands are doing 🙂
Woops i had a download issue, so started a little late. Just finished 🙂
It was good, seems like they sped up the sessions since the upgrade?
I feel a bit more anxious after doing the session, as stopping to think reminded me of some things that are causing me some stress, which i thought was interesting and perhaps a sign that i need to think about them a little more. Hmmmmmm
@Bay52VU to answer your other two questions. Yep i was able to pay attention to my breath although damn it was hard!
I had lots of thoughts about the forum rebuild (funnily enough).
Also thought about some relationship stuff and how i feel about connections with different people in my life.
Were you able to pay attention to your breath?
What sort of thoughts were popping up for you?
(Also I'm sorry we ended up starting so late :P)
@Bay52VU ! it feels like it's been ages! Rebuilding is taking me away from the community too much 😞
All the rebuilding work will be worth it though 🙂
Ahh..I got called into work and it falls into this time. I'll do it when I get home then 
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Perhaps it's better when I'm more worn out. Have a good session and good luck!
So, time of day. I'm going to propose 6:30pm AEDT because that's the earliest I can make it home on weekdays. But I don't mind if other people want to do it earlier and I can just do the thing afterwards.
Can anyone make 6:30 or is there a different time that works better? I'll set up a poll if I have to 😛
This sounds awesome! 6:30 works for me. Looking forward to it, meditation is something I want to try to do more of.
Hey, this sounds like a great idea! Might jump in and do it myself, especially since I haven't actually tried Smiling Mind so it's worth the experience
Hey @Bay52VU I love this idea! I remember we tried to do it every day for half an hour or so but I found it hard to commit to it. I think it can definitely work with people hopping in and out whenever they are free but we might need some regulars. Obviously I would try to do it every day but I dont know how long I could sustain that. Should we test it out like with a 14 day challenge or something? 14 days of mindfulness and then we can sortve see how the community responds and whether it's sustainable. What do you think?
And then maybe cut it back to 3 or 4 days a week for an ongoing thing rather than every day, depending on how things go.
Anyone else up for a 14 day challenge? Respond and let me know what time of day would work for you!
I think if we do it for a few days, or over the next couple of weeks we only do every second day or something like that so that no one is pressured to fit this in along with any festive plans. 😛
That's a good idea @Bee 🙂 If people can't make the session time then they absolutely can still have a go and make a post about it.
