MINDFULNESS: THE PRESENT MOMENT
June 4th, 2013

MINDFUL RUNNING:   A Practice & a Journey

 

These were some of my reflections back in 1998 first titled: Thoughts on Running Observing Thoughts It was a poem I wrote after a run on St. Valentine’s Day.

From those thoughts flowed: On the road to Mindful Running

"Life is the childhood of our immortality."
Goethe

Mindful

Mindfulness or being mindful is being aware of your present moment. You are not judging, reflecting or thinking. You are simply observing the moment in which you find yourself. Moments are like a breath. Each breath is replaced by the next breath. You’re there with no other purpose than being awake and aware of that moment. As Jon Kabat Zinn says reflecting on a Japanese mindfulness puzzle: “Wherever you go, there you are.”

If you start by being aware of your breath, you know it comes and goes. It is like the end of one wave from among the endless ocean waves. They continue to come and disappear to be followed by another and another and another. They come. They disappear. They come, they end, they flow back to be covered by another incoming wave. You can hear the sound. It’s rhythm puts the mind into a trance, and you go far away but wherever you go, there you are.

 

for the full article please proceed in a mindful way to

http://www.mindfulness.com/2011/03/08/mindful-running-a-practice-a-journey/