Mindfulness - does it work ?

[The_Real_David_Charles]

Has anybody done a course in Mindfulness with any kind of result ?

One way to prevent a slip into anger/depression is to be aware of small disagreements.  If, at this initial stage, you can change your mindset from angry to accepting, i.e. "why did this car crash into me ?" to "there are thousands of cars on the road each rush hour and accidents sometimes happen", then a full scale depressive slide might be averted.  Once you get fixed in the "anger"/"why me ?" mindset things will react the same way until enough negativity is there to do serious damage.

Just gotta be aware of that initial angst.  Hence, my question on Mindfulness - does it work the same way ?

Adios, David.

PS More personal examples obvioulsy take their toll more.  Does hanging onto misery really define us or entrap us ?

[SGde3a]

I have done some mindfulness meditation. The effect i noticed was that it's mostly about being mindful of your thoughts/actions (as they arise).

During the meditation we would try to reduce the abstract thoughts we have or wandering thoughts that aren't exactly suitable to the current situation like thinking about dinner, or what we want to do the next day or thoughts about the past.

The after affect was that after stopping the meditation you would continue to only use thoughts about the current things you are doing at present rather than constantly thinking or worrying about things then planning on them as far as you can into the future.

So it's great to reduce anger and worry, for me.

Constantly thinking or worrying with introversion its hard to see the forest for the trees as they say. Easy to get trapped in it.