2024 - Week 50 - Memories and Mindfulness

Why Struggle? Podcast w Barbara J. Faison

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2024 - Week 50 - Memories and Mindfulness

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This is an episode about how using your memories can be a mindfulness practice.

Over the past three weeks I have shared how to use 3 M’s: Music, your Mouth, Meditation and Mindfulness to stress less. The fourth M is Memories.

It’s time to learn more about how connecting with your memories can be helpful for managing your emotions and stress.

Enjoy this excerpt from Five Mindful Ways to Struggle Less and Enjoy Life More.

A few years ago when I was working in corporate America and got stuck in Boston for a few days due to bad weather. I took the train to CT to visit my niece, April who was working there.

When I returned home, my husband, TD, had planted rose bushes and other plants we had talked about a few weeks earlier. I had a whole flower garden to view and take in as soon as I arrived at the house. In addition to seeing him after being gone for several days, pulling up to our house and seeing the rose bushes and flowers brought me so much joy. It’s a favorite memory of mine. It makes me smile whenever I think of it.

Remember that accident I had back when I talked about mindfulness and meditation? After the accident, my sister-in-law sent me flowers to brighten my day. Another go to memory that makes me smile. She and my niece were in an accident a few weeks prior to mine. She told me my brother handled everything and she was able to relax. At the time I was single and I had to handle everything on my own. She wanted to offer me something that would make me smile. And it did.

This is what I called one of my GTM’s, Go To Memories.