Your Stories: December 2010

Thursday, October 20 2011

TOMMY HOUSWORTH

Location: Decatur, GA

When did you first start practicing mindfulness and why were you motivated to do so?

I began practicing mindfulness about 12 years ago, as my wife and I prepared to have our first child. I realized I had lived a lot of my life by either avoiding discomfort or placing my thoughts far from the present moment.  

Did you take a class? If so, what sort of class did you take?

I took introductory meditation classes at the Atlanta Soto Zen Center (around 2000 or 2001) and have since practiced with the Shambhala Center of Atlanta here in Decatur, GA.

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Tuesday, October 11 2011

ANGELA GUNN

When did you first start practicing mindfulness and why were you motivated to do so?

I was motivated to start practicing mindfulness when I found myself at a very negative point in my life. I couldn’t seem to find a way out of the situation I was in without taking responsibility for my mind and changing the way I thought about my life and where I had found myself.

At first I tried reading about mindfulness practice as a means of learning, but that left me with a lot of information in my head and no real understanding of how to implement that information into real life practice.

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