{"id":24031,"date":"2016-08-04T02:01:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=24031"},"modified":"2016-08-10T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T09:20:00","slug":"mindfulness-hearing-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mindfulness-hearing-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness Hearing Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/dog_upright.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Mindfulness Hearing Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/dog_upright.jpg\" title=\"Mindfulness Hearing Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mindfulness Hearing Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On a small quest to verify that we <i>hear<\/i> in our mother&#8217;s womb &#8230; and always suspected we, mostly, did, but asked of our &#8220;online mother&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;Mother&#8221; &#8230; I said &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a target=_blank href='https:\/\/www.google.com.au\/?client=firefox-b-ab#q=do+we+hear+or+do+we+only+sense+vibration+in+the+womb&#038;gfe_rd=cr' title='Do we hear or do we only sense vibration in the womb?'>Do we hear or do we only sense vibration in the womb?<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8230; and believe if my ears do not deceive me &#8230; <font size=1>chortle, chortle<\/font> &#8230; from week 6 of pregnancy we have been hearing &#8230; <font size=1>and just to think &#8230; could have heard that <a target=_blank title='?' href='http:\/\/afltables.com\/afl\/seas\/1959.html'>Collingwood win<\/a>?<\/font><\/p>\n<p>And so that brings us to our &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; series, and our sense of &#8220;hearing&#8221;, following on from <a title='Mindfulness Feel Tutorial' href='#mfft'>Mindfulness Feel Tutorial<\/a> as shown below, and our context for all this discussion with <a target=_blank href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/google-and-mac-os-x-date-and-time-troubleshooting-tutorial\/' title='Google and Mac OS X Date and Time Troubleshooting Tutorial'>Google and Mac OS X Date and Time Troubleshooting Tutorial<\/a>.  So important in terms of &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>communicating, be that through speech of some sort, or playing music, or making other sounds<\/li>\n<li>detecting what&#8217;s going on<\/li>\n<li>detecting what might happen soon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; and crucial, as you&#8217;d glean, in our progression, as a species.  By &#8220;hearing&#8221; we add in the &#8220;detection of vibration&#8221; here, especially important to people with impaired &#8220;hearing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Most of our lives are full of the filtering of, primarily, and in order &#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>sight<\/li>\n<li>sound<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p> &#8230; and when we choose to lose &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; of what goes on around us as we are out and about, working digital equipment, perhaps, we give up the &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; attention to either or both of the two above, too, primarily.  Sometimes this is appropriate, but sometimes it is unfortunate, and a balance of &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; is arguably the key to greater personal harmony here, we&#8217;d argue.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/dog_upright.jpg\">pet<\/a><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/dogs_sniffing.jpg\" title='Click picture'>s<\/a> you&#8217;ll know by watching them, with their, generally, superior hearing, that they get a lot of enjoyment from being <i>heard<\/i> and <i>listening<\/i> too.  Know my <i>golden<\/i> loves both, with that &#8220;sit at attention&#8221;, &#8220;head up to the wind&#8221; look where she&#8217;s sniffing and listening all at once, ready to break into &#8220;dog talk&#8221; very soon.  Without some balance of &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; here, what we gain from digital technology, will taketh away too much of what we, as a species, used to be better at.  For instance, how good are you at &#8220;listening&#8221; compared to how you were at school?  Maybe better?  Maybe not?  Being as none of us has the answer to everything hopefully you&#8217;d want to be saying &#8220;Maybe better?&#8221; but is this the case for most of us?<\/p>\n<p>So many questions &#8230; no set answers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p id='mfft'>Previous relevant <a target=_blank title='Mindfulness Feel Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mindfulness-feel-tutorial\/'>Mindfulness Feel Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/bark.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Mindfulness Fell Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/bark.jpg\" title=\"Mindfulness Feel Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mindfulness Feel Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our sense of <a target=_blank title='Mindfulness Smell Tutorial' href='#mfst'>smell<\/a> often goes hand in hand with our sense of &#8220;touch&#8221;.  Nature provides so many &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; ideas regarding our sense of &#8220;touch&#8221;.  Think of the <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/bark.jpg\" title='Click picture'>bark<\/a> on a tree, the touch of water on a hot day or the afternoon sea breeze perhaps.  Maybe the warmth of a heater on a cold day, the fur of a pet, the squelchiness of a slug or the ooziness of toothpaste?<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;feel&#8221; covers this &#8220;touch&#8221; idea, and it&#8217;s curious in <a target=_blank title='Feel via Google search' href='https:\/\/www.google.com.au\/?client=firefox-b-ab#q=feel+dictionary'>English<\/a> how it concerns our emotions as well?  We found <a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.elephantjournal.com\/2016\/08\/the-difference-between-being-aware-of-our-feelings-understanding-them\/'>ideas here<\/a> interesting.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p id='mfst'>Previous relevant <a target=_blank title='Mindfulness Smell Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mindfulness-smell-tutorial\/'>Mindfulness Smell Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/dogs_sniffing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Mindfulness Smell Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/dogs_sniffing.jpg\" title=\"Mindfulness Smell Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mindfulness Smell Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re back following up on the <a target=_blank title='Mindfulness Follow Up Tutorial' href='#mfut'>Mindfulness Follow Up Tutorial<\/a> as shown below on our quest for greater &#8220;mindfulness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Why?  Well, we believe it aids with destressing, and improving concentration levels, good for more people&#8217;s health and work progress.<\/p>\n<p>In that last &#8220;episode&#8221; we drilled down with our vision on an everyday object, perhaps one with a pattern of interest, or one with easily identifiable detail points (if you are beginning on this quest).  As time goes on, you&#8217;ll probably find interest in things less and less intrinsically interesting to others, because your &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; skills are improving.  Of course, being &#8220;mindful&#8221;, you might be interested in tracing your progress.<\/p>\n<p>So here is the next &#8220;drill down&#8221; for the object we&#8217;ve been musing on &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/close_up.jpg' title='Drill down again...'><\/img><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; for now, just, looking &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been mainly talking about our sense of sight up until now, but what about our sense of smell?  Watching my <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/dogs_sniffing.jpg\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/dogs_upright.jpg\" title='Click picture'>dogs<\/a>, you can tell that they give over much more of themselves to follow their sense of smell.  Am not saying we can match the sensitivity to smell a dog has, but you can learn a lot watching their sense of delight &#8220;sensing&#8221; the world via the sense of smell.  Probably our best practice places are the kitchen (cooking smells) and the bathroom (soap and perfume smells) and the garden (flower and compost and soil smells), for you to link &#8220;smell&#8221; to &#8220;mindfulness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p id='mfut'>Previous relevant <a target=_blank title='Mindfulness Follow Up Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mindfulness-follow-up-tutorial\/'>Mindfulness Follow Up Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/clouds.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Mindfulness Follow Up Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/clouds.png\" title=\"Mindfulness Follow Up Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mindfulness Follow Up Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In following up the <a target=_blank title='Mindfulness Primer Tutorial' href='#mpt'>Mindfulness Primer Tutorial<\/a> as shown below we want to point out that &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; probably won&#8217;t just happen for you as a tool in your life to relieve stress and gain peace.  Like a lot of things learning &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; has a &#8220;training wheels&#8221; period, during which it might be &#8220;that you just don&#8217;t get it&#8221;.  Sadly, some of us will &#8220;never get it&#8221;, but we really think it&#8217;s worth trying.<\/p>\n<p>And so, how do you improve &#8220;mindfulness&#8221;?  To us, the &#8220;doh!&#8221; (but not flippant) answer to this is to be able to hold onto a &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; session, devoted to one object perhaps, longer.<\/p>\n<p>And how might we train ourselves to do that?  Again, in a &#8220;doh!&#8221; (but not flippant) answer to this, we&#8217;d suggest, if you can, you &#8220;drill down&#8221;, and in the spirit of this, we present to you a follow up image (for the followers of this thread of blog postings) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/zoom_in.jpg' title='Drill down...'><\/img><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; for now, just, looking &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also today there are the more dynamic natural parts to our life we tend to ignore if we lack &#8220;mindfulness&#8221;.  If that&#8217;s you, when is the last time you looked up at the sky, on a day with <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/clouds.png\" title='Click picture'>clouds<\/a>, and looked at them, more towards the curious way our initial ancestors would have looked at them, with a sense of awe?  Getting perspective, perhaps.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p id='mpt'>Previous relevant <a target=_blank title='Mindfulness Primer Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mindfulness-primer-tutorial\/'>Mindfulness Primer Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/mindfulness_101.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Mindfulness Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/mindfulness_101.jpg\" title=\"Mindfulness Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mindfulness Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The term &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; has become quite a buzzword, it seems to me.  Will talk into the future about my practical realization that &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; plays a bigger role than you might think with your work, perhaps, depending on what you are doing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Wikipedia&#8217;s take on <a target=_blank title='Mindfulness information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mindfulness'>&#8220;mindfulness&#8221;<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mindfulness\"><p>\nMindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one&#8217;s attention to the internal and external experiences occurring in the present moment,[1][2][3] which can be developed through the practice of meditation and other training.[2][4][5] The term &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; is a translation of the Pali-term sati,[6] which is a significant element of some Buddhist traditions. The recent popularity of mindfulness in the West is generally considered to have been initiated by Jon Kabat-Zinn.[7][8]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We wanted to start off a series of tutorials encouraging &#8220;our take&#8221; on &#8220;mindfulness&#8221;.  Now please don&#8217;t think of me as an expert, but am just presenting concepts that may, even briefly, take you out of usual routines, to give your brain a chance to relax, recuperate and find more peace.<\/p>\n<p>Are our computers and mobile devices the natural enemy of mindfulness?  Our initial thinking is &#8220;yes&#8221;, but you&#8217;re reading this on one, so let&#8217;s not come down too hard on it initially, in terms of setting up the conditions for mindfulness.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I like patterns on visuals, on everyday objects even, and so with our <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mindfulness\/mindfulness_101.jpg\" title='Click picture'>tutorial picture, on its own<\/a> perhaps some &#8220;mindfulness&#8221; peace is a click away, at least for a few seconds?!<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d23893' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d23893\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/mindfulness\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d23893' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d23893' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d23893\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/trip\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d23893' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d23948' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d23948\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/photography\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d23948' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d24008' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d24008\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/tree\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d24008' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d24031' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d24031\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/listening\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d24031' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a small quest to verify that we hear in our mother&#8217;s womb &#8230; and always suspected we, mostly, did, but asked of our &#8220;online mother&#8221; 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