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Originally Posted by wstein
My limited experience with mindfulness practices is that it overly focuses on the physical the very locally physical. It essentially ignores anything your physical senses can't perceive right now.
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Think of how much time we humans tend to spend lost in thought, though - while we tend to be very much identified
with the body, we're also largely unconscious of what we're actually feeling. Mindfulness practice might not seem particularly interesting or beneficial, yet it can actually be revolutionary because of how dissociated from our bodies the majority of we humans tend to be.
Consider, also, that a big part of the reason that most of we humans don't feel truly at peace within ourselves is because we have unresolved trauma and upset stored in our bodies, and then keep in mind that in order to resolve this trauma and upset - if we don't simply want to try and manage or cope, but actually want to
heal these issues - we have to first be consciously
in the body, and then we have to give loving attention to those areas where we're experiencing pain, stress, etc.
Learning how to be with ourselves in this way is not something that should be taken lightly, particularly when you bear in mind just how much we tend to abandon ourselves.