Your pastimes other than music

Good to see another Mindfulness practitioner.   It's important to me although I too don't practice it enough. Rather than a twenty or thirty mindfulness meditation session every day, I practice Mindfulness in small ways throughout the day (a few minutes focusing on my breathing, focusing my awareness on a warm cup of coffee for a minute, or on the road, and that which relates to it, when I'm driving which has the potential to save some lives. It's great for clarity and relaxation, and very good for dealing with obsessive thoughts I find. And I would enjoy your DVD collection.

Just saw this article: 'MINDFULNESS' IS A MEANINGLESS WORD WITH SHODDY SCIENCE BEHIND IT http://www.newsweek.com/mindfulness-meaningless-word-shoddy-science-behind-it-682008

I know there's an illusory, and placebo-like, effect to it, but I still find it useful. Still, it gives me an excuse to slack off from it for a while.

Also nice to see Snooker mentioned, that's one of my favourite activities (plus badminton and tennis).

Various lovely posts here, two that sounded a little too warm and gooey, and Lazland's really made me feel warm and fuzzy (if a little envious to be honest -- must meditate now!). :)

Dr Wu, I'd be interested if you could shoot me a link or two (by PM if you want) to those ufos and the paranormal forums. The truth is out there.

Edited by Logan - October 13 2017 at 13:02

At last, someone mentioning badminton made me post this - one of the sports I enjoy practicing with my youngest, the others being court and table tennis.
On my own, apart from reading and obviously listening to music, I use to go birdwatching by myself or with organized field trips.

condor wrote: Poetry, abstract art, acapella music, chess

Regarding 'mindfulness' practices.....for many years from 1974-1990 I did some Zen bench sitting and Vipassana style breathing/ meditation. Found them both relaxing but eventually gave them up....not sure why.

Casual sex with farm animals.

Let's see, I play futsal, quite a bit of darts at home recently, I play chess with friends, I take drumming lessons, I like making ridiculously long walks through the city here, just setting out to go to a shop that's 45 minutes away and carrying back a bag that's so full it almost tears  so that my shoulders hurt when I get home and it sort of feels like I've had a workout, I like going to thrift shops and cheap antique shops to fill my room with way too much random dirt-cheap stuff, I read some fiction but mostly non-fiction(history, philosophy, science and comedy), watch some documentary, lifestyle and game shows, way too much Youtube sh*t, I make collages sometimes and to be redundantly honest I waste a fair bit of time smoking weed and yes, masturbating...

twseel wrote: Let's see, I play futsal, quite a bit of darts at home recently, I play chess with friends, I take drumming lessons, I like making ridiculously long walks through the city here, just setting out to go to a shop that's 45 minutes away and carrying back a bag that's so full it almost tears  so that my shoulders hurt when I get home and it sort of feels like I've had a workout, I like going to thrift shops and cheap antique shops to fill my room with way too much random dirt-cheap stuff, I read some fiction but mostly non-fiction(history, philosophy, science and comedy), watch some documentary, lifestyle and game shows, way too much Youtube sh*t, I make collages sometimes and to be redundantly honest I waste a fair bit of time smoking weed and yes, masturbating...

to litle of time and to many demands , and yet so many ordeals and stuff. how to fitt lore stuff in to the shortage of time is a thing to ponder on.
I like watchig movies, think about stuff to read and never able to read it. I like to connect whatever i do into one big theory. why do i have this taste in stuff. What to make of it, it can be confusing. I like to create hypothesis and do so all the time.

Barbu wrote: Casual sex with farm animals.

siLLy puPPy wrote: Barbu wrote: Casual sex with farm animals.   So that's YOU on this album cover!!!!

Icarium wrote: twseel wrote: Let's see, I play futsal, quite a bit of darts at home recently, I play chess with friends, I take drumming lessons, I like making ridiculously long walks through the city here, just setting out to go to a shop that's 45 minutes away and carrying back a bag that's so full it almost tears  so that my shoulders hurt when I get home and it sort of feels like I've had a workout, I like going to thrift shops and cheap antique shops to fill my room with way too much random dirt-cheap stuff, I read some fiction but mostly non-fiction(history, philosophy, science and comedy), watch some documentary, lifestyle and game shows, way too much Youtube sh*t, I make collages sometimes and to be redundantly honest I waste a fair bit of time smoking weed and yes, masturbating... to litle of time and to many demands , and yet so many ordeals and stuff. how to fitt lore stuff in to the shortage of time is a thing to ponder on. I like watchig movies, think about stuff to read and never able to read it. I like to connect whatever i do into one big theory. why do i have this taste in stuff. What to make of it, it can be confusing. I like to create hypothesis and do so all the time.

It definitely would be nice to be able to see the meaning of all your activities as a whole as a sort of refllection of your identity, but looking at it that way a lot of those activities don't seem to make much sense...