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April 4, 2022 13 mins

Paying more attention to the present moment can improve your mental wellbeing. This includes your thoughts and feelings, your body and the world around you.

Some people call this awareness "mindfulness". Mindfulness can help you enjoy life more and understand yourself better. It can positively change the way you feel about life and how you approach challenges.

Read more about mindfulness, including steps you can take to be more mindful in your everyday life.

We finish our 5 part serious with the Drunken Worms Podcasts first meditation!! 

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Carl Fessenden (00:00):
Welcome to the drunken worm podcast. Each week,
I will be bringing you dynamiccontent that will educate and
inspire. This podcast wascreated to talk to mental health
professionals about addictionrecovery and their own personal
stories that can help inspire usto become better people and live
healthier lives. Welcome to thedrunken Warren podcast. My name

(00:21):
is Carl, the host and thecreator of this show. And you're
listening to the five and five,Part Five. Welcome, everybody.
And Happy Monday. I hope thatyou guys had a wonderful
weekend. And today we are goingto be exploring how paying
attention to the present moment.
Mindfulness is going to help usgain our mental well being as we
explore the five steps topositive and mental well being.

(00:45):
So I hope you guys are payingattention. I hope you guys are
planning on taking all thethings that you've learned in
this five part series to helpyourself and to become more
mentally healthy. Payingattention more to the present
moment can improve our mentalwell being this includes our
thoughts, feelings, our body andthe world around you. People

(01:06):
sometimes call this awareness,mindfulness, we've talked about
mindfulness, we had Sam genauso,on an episode about five or six
episodes back, well, maybe evenfurther back than that. Maybe it
was 10 episodes ago. And shetalked about mindfulness, right.
So what is mindfulness? Whatdoes that mean when I say
mindfulness? So mindfulness is astate of mind, right? Hahaha.

(01:30):
Okay, funny, Carl, right. Buthonestly, guys, mindfulness is a
state of mind, mindfulnessmeditation, it's being aware of
our surroundings. A lot of timeswhat mindfulness is, is being
aware of your breath. When we domindfulness meditation, you
know, we concentrate on thebreath in and the breath out.

(01:51):
And if your brain is like mine,man, my mind is going 100 miles
a minute, I'm thinking about thecoffeemaker that I left on, I'm
thinking about what I'm going tohave for lunch. I'm thinking
about what I want to do tonight,when I get home from work. I'm
thinking about what I want to dothis weekend. And then I'll
happen to three seconds, right?
Because my mind is such a ajumble of things sometimes. And

(02:15):
mindfulness helps me calm all ofthat. So paying more attention
to the present moment, that'swhat this episode is all about
today, being present today foryour moment, and your own
thoughts and feelings in theworld around you. You can

(02:38):
practice mindfulness. So it'seasy to stop noticing the world
around us. It's also easy tolose touch with the way that our
bodies are feeling to end upliving in our heads, man caught
up in your own thoughts withoutstopping to notice how these

(03:02):
thoughts are driving youremotions and your behaviors.
Professor Mark Williams, man, soour thoughts are driving our
emotions and behaviors. Doesthat make sense to you guys?
Because it totally makes senseto me, right? Our feelings and
our thoughts. And we are beingmindfully aware of what these

(03:26):
feelings and thoughts are. Theseare thoughts stopping techniques
that we're learning here. So youhave an uncomfortable feeling,
right? And do you have thewherewithal to identify that
uncomfortable feeling? Maybeyou're practicing mindfulness
meditation, that's great. Butbeing more in touch with our

(03:47):
bodies, and how our bodies reactto situations, and then our
reactions to those situations,right? Because a lot of times
those can be negative outcomes.
You know, I mentioned in a fewepisodes ago that we had a
little health scare here in thefamily. And when I got home from
dropping the person off at thehospital, the ER, man, I made a
big sandwich. And I wasn't evenhungry. But it was my automatic

(04:11):
go to coping mechanism was food,because I have a food addiction
people. Right? But I was mindfulwhen I did it. And then I made
the conscious decision to goahead and do it. And that's my
own choice, right? But a lot oftimes, we don't have the ability
to be mindful of our emotionsand our feelings and our

(04:35):
behaviors. Because it happenedso fast, that we're already into
the behavior before we realizewhat's happening. An important
part of mindfulness isreconnecting with our bodies,
and that sensations theyexperience what I was just
talking about. This means wakingup to the sights, sounds, smells

(04:57):
and tastes of the presentmoment.
This might be something assimple as feeling the banister
as you walk up the stairs. Thismight be as simple as taking
your socks and shoes off. Andsitting on the edge of the bed

(05:17):
and digging your toes into thecarpet and feeling what that
feels like. This might be assimple as taking your socks and
shoes off and going down to thebeach and walking barefoot into
the sand. What does it feellike? Is it cold? Is it wet? Can
you hear the ocean coming uponto the shore? How are you

(05:39):
feeling in this moment? Anotherpart of mindfulness is to raise
awareness of our thoughts andfeelings that as they happen
moment to moment. Like I said,guys, a lot of times, you know,
we have a we have a thought afeeling and an emotion and then
a execution of behavior thathappens so fast is the same.

(06:00):
Well, it's a split second thing,it just goes like, just like
that, right? So fast. And beforewe know it, we're acting on
these emotions and thesefeelings. And unless you're
training yourself to identifythese things, to bring yourself
and then we're working together.
Today, I want to do amindfulness exercise with you

(06:29):
guys. And we're going to do ameditation. So what I want you
guys to do is I want you to finda safe place. If you're in the
car and you're listening tothis, please wait until you get
out of the car. I don't want youto do this in the car. But if
you're at home, I want you to gointo a room where there's no
distractions. I want you to putyour phone on silent and do not

(06:53):
disturb while you're doing themeditation. I want you to get
comfortable if you have someincense light some incense. If
you have a candle that scentedlight the candle that's scented,
and I want you guys to find acomfortable chair, maybe a big
pillow that you can sit on thefloor. And I want you to listen
to the sound of my voice.

(07:22):
Close your eyes. Take a slow,deep inhale and a complete
exhale. As you began awarenessof your breath, start to notice
what thoughts are going throughyour mind. What are you thinking

(07:46):
about? Do not get caught up inyour thoughts. Just begin to
notice them as they travelacross your mind. Let them go as
they pass and watch them go andcome. Continue to breathe
deeply. I will begin to describesettings. Allow your mind to

(08:13):
jump immediately to thesesettings. Let your mind be free
to travel and do not becomeattached to any one setting or
image. You are a travelerjumping from place to place in
your mind. We will now begin anocean a deep blue ocean. A beach

(08:40):
with white sand. A seagullflying over the sand. Pelicans
chasing the current over thewaves. The waves crashing on the
beach. The white sound thedesert cactus in the desert.

(09:01):
Blue Sky Blue cloudless sky birdsinging a walled garden. lush
green grass, storm clouds a coolbreeze. The crack of thunder the
dark sky illuminated bylightning. A long dirt road

(09:26):
stretching towards the horizon.
a grove of olive trees a farmera woman pulling water from a
will children are playing in thedistance a farmhouse a stable
horses enclosed in a corral awarm sunsets nighttime the hoot

(09:52):
of an owl The sounds of cricketsa warm chair next to the
fireplace. A gray cat curled ona small rug. White puffy clouds
a white dove burning candleflickering flame burning candle

(10:20):
burning candle. Now, take aslow, deep inhale. Long complete
exhale and open your eyes whenyou are ready
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