{"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 \u2013 as a matter of fact \u2013 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\u2026<br><br>Thankful \u2013 have gratitude what daily life is providing you<br>Trustful \u2013 have faith that your heart keeps pounding, your breath keeps going and healthy air is around you. The simple things are there for you \u2013 no matter your mental stage<br>Accepting \u2013 be aware that certain things are what they are and they will be like this all the time. Embrace them<br>Not knowing \u2013 recognise that you do not know everything. Period.<br>Not thriving \u2013 think about\u2026you have already achieved so much and you are already there<br>Not judging \u2013 have an opinion and let everybody have their thoughts and directions<br>Patience \u2013 be calm as things are coming together \u2013 one or the other way<br><br>Obviously its a complete other thing acting\/living like this\u2026lets 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 \u2013 as a matter of fact \u2013 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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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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