January 20: Tom R. on Focusing

    Focusing. Tom R our member has not been able to attend our meetings for a while. Therefore it was quite nice to have him present this week's piece on focusing. He had some nice exercises that had us focus on various parts of our body, and then various part of our mind. We practiced listening and then reported to each other what we heard. It was important to practice listening from the outside and from the inside of the body. We went around the room and described what we heard. One of the most interesting exercises was to listen from the inside of our right thumb. Try it sometime!. I have often thought that most people in our workaday world are unable to focus our mind well at all. We have become so adept at multitasking that we have forgotten how to do one thing and focus on it. These practices are very helpful in practicing mindfulness.