My second attempt at mindfulness based stress reduction.

I am reading over the posts of when I first took the MBSR course at St. Joe's and I can't believe how hard I was on myself for not doing it right. Having that attitude has a certain judgemental ring to it; since I wasn't doing it right then I must have been doing it wrong. 

I've been reading the book Full Catastrophe Living by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn in great detail and I now understand that mindfulness is about moment to moment, non-judgemental awareness. This understanding has allowed me to practice mindfulness once again by following the week by week instructions in the book with a lot less stress and more clarity. I am in my second week of practice which involves doing the 45 minute body scan exercise and 10 minutes of sitting meditation 6 days per week. I still encounter some of the difficulties that I encountered before but you know what, that is just fine by me at this moment.