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Old Oct 17, 2011, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Ygrec23 View Post
As in mindfulness meditation?
To me, mindfulness and meditation are different things. Meditation might be a technique to help in being mindful, but mindfulness is just being aware of what your real thoughts and feelings are, without censorship.

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Don't quite understand. "Thinking" is personal, private, unheard by others. "Saying" (if you're not talking to yourself) is meant to communicate something to others. Not easy?
As a child, I think not being able to talk about something is almost the same as not being able to think about it. In my case, anyway, I think I perceived that I could not even afford to think about many things, in case I slipped and let something I thought get expressed, and that was dangerous. So I learned not even to think about forbidden subjects.
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