Thank you, as always. You are one of my favorite advisors, right up there with Thich Nhat Hahn. I love your delivery and your message. That being said, I was noticing my surroundings, and found my tape measure. I’ve been looking for it forever!! Obviously, I set it down in a moment where I was focused on something else thereby losing it. Another reason to be mindful and in the moment.

I loved your story about the owl sound.

Thank you ❤ The mindfulness of the present moment and all that is in it is a wonderful thing and life saving 💕🍁 Love and blessings

Thanks for the lecture video Nada. It's helpful.

Listening to you again today Nada. It really helps to hear this as I've been in grief since last year. Grief is very tricky on the mind. It too can cause a person to go on autopilot for a long time. It causes fear and anxiety that I thought I had dealt with a long time ago but grief brought it all back up again. Life just doesn't feel the same when you lose your loved ones . It doesn't even have to be by death. It could be the break up of a relationship, loss of a job or even losing a precious souvenir and so on. For me it was the loss of my 3 cats. They were my life for 19 beautiful years. I loved them more than the people that I have in my life and they gave me years of unconditional love. I just felt so lost and I miss them so much. I believe now I'm mourning more than I am grieving because now I'm expressing it outward on here. I know some people will have the reaction of " well, they're just cats" and some people will understand. Either way I've learned not to care about the ones who don't understand the bond between animal and human. It's not like I have people who care about me, those cats were my family. Thanks again Nada. I keep coming back to this video because it helps me to remember to take care of myself and to live in the now. Love , peace and joy to you Nada and everyone on here.

I agree the moment I started to live in the moment instead of dream of the future or allow my past to haunt me, I gained more clarity and appreciation for the now. No matter what life throws at me, I can often find something nice in the moment. This has made me more appreciative and grateful for the small things. Which in turn deepened my capacity to love and give. All in all, I lost my depression, gaind a will to live, can manage my burnout recovery, have less migraines and less overall psychosomatic pains. Being mindful in the present moment is incredibly valuable. However, it can be very hard to stay in the present if life throws moments of stress and pain at me. I find my energy levels dropping fast and find I harder to remain as balanced. My desire to recharge and to be alone will rise immensely. In those moments, I find it hard not to reach for a distraction, like playing a video game or a tv series or endless doom scrolling online. I am slowly building on my rather new habit to be mindful first and sit with the negative feelings until I feel some relief before I go for the 'easy fun'.

Hey nada, thanks, for quite a while ive been wasting my time in distraction without being present or aware, sometimes when u feel sad or had some bad event, you keep trying to distract yourself with something while your true feeling of dissapointment and sadness is postponed,

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Often the present - especially when doing complicated things requiring many different and simultaneous processes - is too involved for unfiltered/unhindered present-awareness. Also very often this awareness "interferes" with that which I'm doing. So there is a sort of "selective" awareness to practise while doing stuff. Then, when not doing stuff, I can let go of this"selective" or practised-awareness and be aware without restricting - or forbidding - the mind and the senses. Love.

Thank you We have many things in common

This might be your best one yet, Nada!

Thanks Nada I needed this reminder. Love and peace to you.

I have a very hard time doing this with my severe anxiety. I always find myself ruminating on my regrets and failures and the future pain to come. This palpable feeling of dread emerges within me and my ability to be mindful of various sounds and tastes is greatly diminished. Is it possible if I keep practicing mindfulness this pernicious tendency will be eliminated once and for all? Many thanks for another insightful video, your words always bring peace, comfort and astute advice.

Namaste ❤

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Hey nada, do you think your methods d way of slowpaced, wise building enlightenment is the same of other traditional like Japanese buddhist zen, I ised to be watching u a lot but lately ive been watching alan watts, i observed that his mathod is more of a straightforward awareness, just see the reality without making a lot of theory because reality is not a concept But you is telling us by your experience the wisdom of life, and by sll those wisdom of your realization we starts to awakened bit by bit Its a different method, a snap realization awakening and a slow paced wise awakening

One thing bothers me. All the lessons on mindfulness seem to say that 'daydreaming' must be avoided at all times. I meditate a lot and find it easy but I also daydream a lot and find it relaxing and sometimes useful. I agree that thinking about stressful things should be avoided and that mindfulness during routine chores can be beneficial but I don't agree that daydreaming about how much you love your wife or what a nice day you have had is a bad thing. I suppose what I am saying is that we should be teaching more along the lines of 'If you find you are thinking about unhelpful things then practice mindfulness but otherwise allow yourself to think about things you are grateful for.'