[Naples-News] Mindful Consumption Month

[Andrew Solis]

Dear Friends,

 

This August, many of us in the Naples Sangha and throughout our broader
Florida Community of Mindfulness (FCM) will once again be observing a full
month of Mindful Consumption. We invite you to share in this wonderful
practice with us.

 

During our month of Mindful Consumption, we will use our mindfulness and the
support of our Sangha brothers and sisters to look deeply into our consumer
habits. We will consider consumption in the broadest sense: our shopping
habits; food purchasing and eating habits; alcohol/drug usage; TV/radio/CD
listening; internet surfing/emailing, instant messaging; filler-type
activities; use of energy; conversations and other social interactions; work
habits; etc. We're all different but most of us have some level of
consumption that may be worth examining to see if it's healthy or a symptom
of an underlying feeling that we may wish to look at more closely. To do
this, we need to increase our awareness of our consumption patterns - to
actually see what we're doing - as well as understand why.

 

During August, participants in this practice will seek to limit their
acquisition and consumption of things to only those items that are necessary
for the health and well being of ourselves and others. We'll closely observe
our consumer impulses and our mind when we "think" we need to purchase
something. We'll question its need in our lives, and whether our consumption
habits effects those who have less than us and may prevent them from being
able to get the true necessities for their lives. Many may maintain a
journal for the month to help facilitate this deep looking. It may also be
an opportune time to contribute items and clothing we no longer want or need
from our home to a local homeless shelter.

 

We will be providing more support to participants, both through FCM email
and through our local Sangha, throughout the month of August. We will also
have an online forum through the FCM website that we can use to share our
practice during the month. We hope you can share in our Mindful Consumption
month as much as possible, as we continue to work to transform our lives and
bring greater joy to ourselves and others.

 

With metta,

 

The Naples Sangha

 

 

 

 

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