I find it almost impossible to shut my mind. During the three minutes, I was thinking a lot about: your article, my future articles, the alarm clock, the falling Steem and SBD prices, the upcoming tango weekend... and a very little bit about my current breathing.

The only type of meditation that I think relatively works for me are the guided meditations where we listen to someones voice - that somewhat prevents me from talking to myself... but only somewhat. : )

The way mindfulness addresses craving distress is through acceptance.

In order accept frustration, I should take a moment in which I fully acknowledged my stress: what caused it, how it made my body react and how it disrupted my emotions. From there I should expand my acknowledgment of that entire moment. How? By making an effort to tell myself that there was more to that moment than my anguish, by understanding that that moment was not defined only by my frustrations, but also by my breathing, my heart beat, the slight discomfort in my lower back, the moving trees that I could see through the window and so forth.

The idea behind this is that through accepting one’s difficult feeling and ‘giving’ them the space to exist as a component of the whole experience they don’t become overwhelming and one doesn’t feel entrapped by it.

I liked this advice so much that I've added it to my self-help word document. : )

Speaking of my self-help word document, here are some quotes/notes related to mindfulness from it:

The only certainty is uncertainty, and the best thing for us is to accept that and be curious about our future.

If you are bad at something, you deserve your own compassion and help, not condemnation and punishment. If you accept yourself unconditionally - whether or not you do well (or do well about doing well) or get approved by others - you will tend to act in your own interests, go for pleasures, and feel good much more.

Cheers! : )