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A Far Superior and Very Brief Course in Mindfulness Find yourself a quiet space. It needn’t be for more than five or ten minutes. BUT by ‘quiet’ I mean within yourself. It can be while you are walking, so long as it’s not in a ‘hectic’ area and you can zone-in a bit. Sure, you can preview what follows, But, please don’t attempt or presume to memorize it, despite how simple and brief it may seem on the surface. Rather, let it come of its own accord. Yes, I strongly suggest you have this with you to read – in your private, quiet space - as you do what this asks. Now I ask that you really ‘Feel’ for your inner-quietness – mentally, emotionally, psychologically, and, if you can, spiritually. This, I hope and intend, will prepare you to enter a state of true and full Openness and Willingness to really Receive what follows: 1)	 Mentally picture something to comfortably concentrate on for this short while. It really doesn’t matter what, honestly – a car or cat you like, a lake or ocean scene, whatever – if you think it matters what, you’re already missing the point; so just Choose. 2)	Now, slowly, three times, breathe deeply in through your nose, hold for three seconds, then exhale all the way as far as you can and hold for three seconds. Just three breath-cycles, that’s all. 3)	Now give yourself a thorough body-scan, sensing for any tension/tightness, and shrug it loose. Just giggle a bit if it helps. 4)	Now bring your mind back to whatever it was you chose to focus on. And then ask yourself just Who the You was that chose whatever you chose, AND ESPECIALLY, Who was the you who ordered or directed your focus Back? This is, by far, the single most critical element of the proper development of your mindfulness. Because it is precisely in your evolving process of designing, defining, inventing and creating a new and ‘Truer You’ who will have the authority to control and direct your attention. It will be this new and greater you, whose ability and command of your new capacities for concentration, will begin to free you from what you hadn’t even known was the horrendous burden of all the mental and emotional crap you’d been harboring as though it was natural and just part of life. But it needn’t be, and with only a bit of real mindfulness practice you will soon come to love and respect this true new you. 5)	That’s all. Simple.  Easy.  Yes, crazy as it may seem at first – we all must, at some stage of our deeper/higher growth as healthy humans, come to the realization that what we thought of as our Self and Reality were illusions/delusions born of our environments and not remotely representative of Who we Truly are when we shed all the bullshit.

From the Heart of Roger Stockham/Hem Ahadin, as Received through prayer, meditation and study. 4/2/15 - Burlington, Vermont