For me mindfulness with PTSD has a particular twist to it. Since my brain development was hard wired with PTSD hypervigilance growing up as a missionary kid in a war zone, I have eyes in the back of my head for any threat in my surroundings. That was good back then. Now, though, awareness of anything good in my surroundings can escape me. That's why I took the suggestion of a DS PTSD friend years ago to start keeping a gratitude journal every night. It sums up my day with the awareness of one good thing to be thankful for.

ADHD... my brain never shutdowns and I have two or three thoughts going on at the same time. Looks like the puppy is having the same problem.

As I recall from anatomy & physiology, our brains receive over 10 million bits of information in a single second, but we process something like 50. Just fifty. It was really depressing, So I hope it was wrong!

Meditation for me requires... Well, honestly, I never get very good at it. So I don't know.

I learned too many ways of mindfullness to count in DBT and DBT ACES Graduate program but the biggest one for me is to try to make myself focus on ONLY one thing that is the most important at the time. Another is to color and focus only on that! My mind has 50 or more tabs open in my mind at once LOL

Wow! what great ways to practice mindfulness.

Muji, a gratitude journal is a great tool for mindfulness. I keep a guided journey which includes gratitude.

Thor, you are right, puppies have all kinds of thoughts. What type of puppy do you have?

Leo, great guess! 1o million received and 126 pieces of information processed.

AJ, great example! I am starting to color, but still have problems focusing I]on the really detailed ones.