“We might become friends, social networking and myself, but right now I feel like we are really just getting to know one another. ”

— Gina Biegel, MA, LMFT

Social networking can be challenging. If it isn't challenging for you, I think you should maximize this talent! I am approaching the social networking arena mindfully from the inside out. I am being as thoughtful as I can about what I write, how I write it and to whom I send it to. I look at my intentions for the posting. I try to get posts out regarding research and information pertinent to the community in which I work and serve. I also share Stressed Teens marketing about this new blog, the new online class and to events being done by Stressed Teens.

I am a bit frustrated but I am also excited. I think I am doing something right. I am posting to groups within Linkedin and Facebook and I am getting a few comments and likes reported. There is still that feeling that something is missing. It just feels a little weird. I am sending things into an abyss. In a way I actually am. I hope people are patient with me if I make mistakes. If you can let me know if I am making them I would appreciate it because knowing what you don't know is a wee bit difficult.

I found a few articles on mindful social networking and I thought I would include links to them here:

I understand if you are Kim Kardashian or Apple you probably have this social networking business down, but for the rest of us do we really have the help we need? I need the Dummies guide to social networking. If someone hasn't written that one yet please do. However, I am sure by the time it is published we will be onto a whole new group of networks for which to use.

MINDFUL MOMENT: WHEN USING SOCIAL NETWORKING BE MINDFUL ABOUT WHAT YOU SEND TODAY.

REQUEST: LET US KNOW HOW YOU ARE NAVIGATING THIS SOCIAL NETWORKING ARENA. WHAT HAS WORKED? WHAT HASN'T WORKED.

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I frequently smile when I see a new offshoot of how mindfulness can be applied to all the areas of our lives. Mayonnaise the next frontier. I enjoy seeing how mindfulness has become a part of the fabric of our society and lives. I remember not so long ago when it was even considered "taboo." I remember teaching my first mindfulness class for teens in 2004 and a teen thinking I was a hippie and trust me if you know me you know I am not a hippie, but I definitely smiled then and continue through to today.

I am humbled and grateful how mindfulness has transformed into our lives that people can apply it to anything they do including eating mayonnaise. If it can be this readily available then teens and their parental counterparts will be more open to the offerings mindfulness can provide. The mindful moment today: MAKE A SANDWICH MINDFULLY!