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It's a good thing time is an illusion...

2/21/2015

It's a good thing time is an illusion because a lot of it has gone by since I last updated this blog!

At least, that is, "updated" in terms of typing text into a box on my web site. In terms of writing a blog post in my head while driving or walking or weeding the garden or standing in the shower...

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The Hot-Buttered Smell of Mindfulness

7/25/2013

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The first audiences treated to a cinematic experience, back in the late 1800's, were shown - on a screen about the size of a smallish living room window - grainy, black and white silent film of a train coming straight at them.

Some fainted. Some dove out of the way. All screamed. All believed.

Their minds were applying "old rules" to the visual information: If it's photographically real, and it's moving, and its perspective remains consistent, it's REAL. If it's a train and it's moving towards us at great speed, we're in REAL DANGER.

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How To Pop Your Cork

6/13/2013

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Have you ever come to a place in your journey where you feel sort of stuck and, after existing that way for a while, possibly using distraction to avoid facing why you're suck, it hits you to ask for help? This happened to me recently. When it hit me to ask for help, it felt like the most natural solution in the world and, as always, made me marvel at the fact I don't automatically think to do so every time I'm in that place.

I don't, personally, think it matters where you direct your request for help. I think all that matters is you feel your sincere desire to be given help - along with at least a shred of faith that the help will come. I guess the reason it surprises me that I am still capable of floundering around, feeling stuck, is that I KNOW from experience that all I have to do is ask for a leg up, or a hand out, or a bit of guidance and magical things will start to happen!

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Dreaming of Eckhart

5/30/2013

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It's not often that I have a dream that is as completely transparent as the one I had last night in which I had a chance to sit down and talk for hours with Eckhart Tolle.

By transparent, I mean that the dream made absolute emotional and logical sense in hindsight. Usually, my dreams are a bit harder to figure out - or bits of the dream seem relevant to my current waking life but other bits seem rather stuck on as though my subconscious, having succeeded in assembling the important info, had then just tossed in some random crap filler in a big hurry to get the dream shipped.

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Hours passing by

5/20/2013

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It's after 11pm - way past my bedtime - but I won't be going anywhere near my mattress until I've checked to make sure my first Screenflow upload has gone well!

Having said that, I have been working all day, so there's a chance I could fall face down on my desk and wake up here at about 3am..

In which case you will see this LIVE and ONLINE before I do: The demo video for Remindfulness -- at long last! Please be sure to leave a comment under the video!

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My Impatient Ego

4/22/2013

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So, here I sit waiting for a massive file to upload to Google Drive so I can share it with the developer who is building the Android version of my app. And I couldn't watch that little upload progress bar any longer. Which got me thinking about impatience. Which got me thinking about -- my app. The version that is working, the iOS version. Because it's working SO beautifully that there is nothing to distract me from doing the practices that come up. Nothing except...

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My interest in the unseen forces began early...

3/3/2013

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Okay so this isn't the post I promised you on Tapping - or the post I promised myself on my latest adventures in mindfulness...

Those are still coming, I promise (us) :-)

In January I was approached about doing a bit for February's Women In Horror Month, in celebration of and support of women writing for the horror genre. The event's coordinator couldn't have been nicer and I was happy to contribute. Especially when she said one of my episodes of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" was her favorite. Turns out it's also one of my favorite things I've ever written. In case you're interested in reading my little bit of advice to horror writers, here's the LINK.

As I explained when telling WIHM about my app, "it's about mindfulness - the lighter side of my interest in unseen forces". (How cool is it that they added that bit about Remindfulness to their site. Thanks, Women In Horror Month!) If you're a fan of or an aspiring writer of horror, I encourage you to get on their list. I personally think horror is a genre that can only benefit from the addition of feminine perspectives. Am I right about that? I'd love to hear from you.

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The whole problem of mindfulness

1/13/2013

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Is that it's boring. Well, at least to the egoic mind, anyway. The IDEA of it is thrilling. The ego LOVES the idea -- how could it not? It's so lofty and yet so sensible at the same time. It clearly would solve the world's problems.

But once you get past the abstract stuff, it's about paying attention to the boring details - anything from washing your hands to listening to your own breathing - until they aren't boring anymore.

This is easy when you're in emotional pain and boring details are like a warm beach you want to lie face down on while the turbulent sea of your unmanageable life churns at the drag marks you've left in the sand.

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Naomi Janzen

Hi everyone and welcome to my first blog. As a screenwriter in Hollywood for over 20 years, I was too busy writing for a living to jump on the blogwagon. Now that I've diversified and channeled my energies into a wider range of pursuits, my keyboard isn't getting the workout it used to get -- so I thought maybe it was time. That and the fact my journey towards mindfulness has suddenly gotten rather public with the completion of my app, Remindfulness. This blog is going to be my own personal mindfulness diary, nothing more and nothing less. Because really I'm not sure there's anything more important -- though EVERYTHING SEEMS more important when it comes down to whether to take those 10 deep conscious breaths or interrupt that resentful thought and replace it with a loving thought. I've been attracted to spiritual ideas my whole life and felt the rapturous expansive joy of moments of Oneness...(a few of them, not many, I will be honest) while reading an enlightening book or meditating on a new concept. But integrating what I am learning into my real, daily, brush your teeth, pay bills, procrastinate exercise, life -- that's an whole other thing. That's what I'll be writing about. That journey. And I'd love to hear about yours.

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