{"id":435,"date":"2023-03-23T08:21:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frankobermeier.com\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2023-03-24T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T16:52:17","slug":"thoughts-about-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frankobermeier.com\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/thoughts-about-mindfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts about Mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many people are talking constantly about being or becoming mindful. This will change your life and the joy you will experience significantly. Now &#8211; as a matter of fact &#8211; all these statements are coming with a very limited set of explanation what mindfulness is and how it is characterised. Took me 5 years+ to come up with the following state of thought&#8230;<br><br>Thankful &#8211; have gratitude what daily life is providing you<br>Trustful &#8211; have faith that your heart keeps pounding, your breath keeps going and healthy air is around you. The simple things are there for you &#8211; no matter your mental stage<br>Accepting &#8211; be aware that certain things are what they are and they will be like this all the time. Embrace them<br>Not knowing &#8211; recognise that you do not know everything. Period.<br>Not thriving &#8211; think about&#8230;you have already achieved so much and you are already there<br>Not judging &#8211; have an opinion and let everybody have their thoughts and directions<br>Patience &#8211; be calm as things are coming together &#8211; one or the other way<br><br>Obviously its a complete other thing acting\/living like this&#8230;lets see how this will develop over the years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are talking constantly about being or becoming mindful. This will change your life and the joy you will experience significantly. Now &#8211; as a matter of fact &#8211; all these statements are coming with a very limited set of explanation what mindfulness is and how it is characterised.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[72,64,65,69,67,68,66,71,70],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explore","tag-accepting","tag-mindful","tag-mindfulness","tag-not-judging","tag-not-knowing","tag-not-thriving","tag-patience","tag-thankful","tag-trustful"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":495,"url":"https:\/\/frankobermeier.com\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/update-mindfulness\/","url_meta":{"origin":435,"position":0},"title":"Update &#8211; Mindfulness","author":"Frank Obermeier","date":"April 1, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The other day I wrote a blog about what mindfulness is for me and provided my definition. Just a recap:Thankful \u2013 have gratitude what daily life is providing youTrustful \u2013 have faith that your heart keeps pounding, your breath keeps going and healthy air is around you. The simple things\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Explore&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Explore","link":"https:\/\/frankobermeier.com\/blog\/index.php\/category\/explore\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":506,"url":"https:\/\/frankobermeier.com\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/r4-evolve-there-is-no-permanent\/","url_meta":{"origin":435,"position":1},"title":"R4 &#8211; Evolve &#8211; there is no permanent","author":"Frank Obermeier","date":"April 3, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the years I I had multiple milestones in my life when I needed to cope with changing. Coping means, that you are considering, have to consider or will consider a change given new \"things\" in your life. 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