What is Lovingmindfulness?

First, we need to say that lovingmindfulness is not a word or a concept present in any language as far as we know. It is simply nonsense that we have made up. Therefore, it is totally unreliable but we love it!

There is an actual concept “lovingkindness,” particularly used by the Buddhist world. We might have been influenced by it.

We like the contemporary practice of mindfulness and, from time to time, just use that simple thing to seize the day.

Mindfulness is the thing of our age, which can take many forms, against the pressures/stress of knowing and trying the survive the world, and of being different from troglodytes, our human ancestors who lived in caves only.

We also like to use mindfulness when watching things as you might encounter on some pages of this blog.

We like watching food and travel shows and documentaries and, although we have watched our archive literally hundreds of times as we do every night, we always discover something new when we watch them with different eyes. Consider, for example, you are watching your favorite TV show(s) once again, focusing only on people's hair or on the bricks on walls of any structure, or any plant or animal featured in that show, distracting your mind consciously from your beloved things like the actors, protagonists, camera movement, course of action, creativity of the director, or scriptwriter's construct of the story, etc.

One of the different eyes we mentioned above is love. We are all made of something related to love and we can always find something new to love in any show, anywhere, anytime, with open eyes and hearts.

That is why we like to name our viewing of something with an open heart oriented to different details as lovingmindfulness.

Louise Hay reminds us that love dispels any bad feeling, which is, we believe, true due to some divine reality. Therefore, a bad feeling can mitigate when we set our mind to find something that can be lovable around when the feeling attacks, if it is not to chaotic requiring medical attention.

In mindfulness, however, there seems to be an approach that flowing emotions are not analyzed, just observed gently. We like the analogy used by the experts of the field that storms maybe harmful and destructive on earth but they are not a thing for the sky. It may denote that nature can harm itself but not the one that surrounds it. So, the approach may be trying to consider the storming feelings as things that just pass, as in the concept of impermanence in Buddhism that laid the foundation of modern mindfulness 26 centuries ago.

Please do not take our concept seriously, then :). Nevertheless, we might continue it as we like every being who has cells has something to analyze and understand with an open heart. We are likely to find something lovable in it if we intend to do so consciously.

Note: We just like to call our activity this way. If that concept has been (or will have been) developed elsewhere, please rely first on it.

A.A.