this forum... or that one with the... "parties"?! O_______o7

Usually I try to focus on the positive things in life...but then I remember that life sucks and then you die. And then it still sucks.

So I just don't bother...

I took kendo some years ago (still have my shinai). Found it too constricting and rigid. Your mileage may vary.

Ran you are breakin ma balls here.

Would suggesting getting a puppy be out of the question?

Life? am I alive in the first place?

Is my body me? chop of a hand or leg will I become no more?

Is the electrochemistry going in my brain that make up my memories me? Fall with my head first on a rock and lost my memories, am I still me? If I lost my memories and sired new children, am I still father to my old children? Even though I have no recollection of them?

If I cannot know me is me how can I know I am going through positive or negative thought cycle? Just let the moment pass, do not think, look up and see the sky is blue. do not think that the blue sky is a sign that it is blue beause there are no cloud so it is unlikely to rain.

Look down and see the earth is brown. Do not think its brown because there are no grass and human advancement take its toll.

Just hear what other people say. Sound is the vibration of air resonating with the ear drum and spark electrochemistry in the brain, do not analyse the particular pattern of sound is insulting or praise.

Just see what the screen show, words on the monitor is just flickers of light going through the retina, do not analyze them and it will just be the background noise. words, negativity hurt me because I allow it so.

I rarely have negative (maybe when a game gets too difficult :P) thoughts but if someone makes me have those I just dispose off the origin :D

Money / Time / Space do not permit it. The folks still have our family dog and hes awesome. Also looks like a mop.

It's iaido actually, but yeah, I said it could be just my thing. But then again, the question was about what we do so I felt like sharing.
Now that I'm no longer sleepy, I've realized there's a simple answer to your question, it's something I take for granted and rarely give it much thought so I didn't post it yesterday. OK, the answer is: try to find support in your friends and family. With it, anything you do to break the circle of negativity is much more likely to have an effect. Hang out with your buddies, have some beer with them, talk about stuff you enjoy, visit your parents or something. Realize how much this life gives you and just enjoy it.

What do you do when the origin is yourself? :P

Who let Sam Beckett in here!?

I remember that I'm a man .

hope I'm not confusing you here. Seems there a lot of concepts and different persons give them the name "mindfulness".
Your term is as good as any and sounds like you have a good thing going.
Just if you wish to know about mindfulness in terms of Buddhism that I've been trying to practice: Mindfullness is seen as a great way to release stress, and help you quickly to lighten your mental weight or such. To evaporate depression. That would in this sense be putting your mind into something, not sure, but almost anything. You can count your breath even, to up to say twenty-one and back to one again, and repeat that a few times. Or just be mindful of your breathing. That's the mind following something in order to give up something else that is considered negative more easily, hence mindfulness. I guess it's almost the same as dropping into presence. But Buddhism, if I have understood it right (maybe not), it's different to try to be aware of the presence, that is a much more involving practice, because you allow anything in your mind to be in the presence. You have to start learning to give up those thoughts too, not hang onto them and also not to push them away, just letting the presence happen and thoughts come, stay and go. If you do that, I'd say it's not a quick way to fix your mood, that's more to taking the long way in actually changing your mind permanently. At least if you pick up that as a daily practice. I'm sure there are a zillion definitions and perhaps what I'm describing makes no sense to someone else. Just trying to pitch in :D And don't take my word for it, for Fock's Sake, I'm still a horrible beginner, ending up making shopping list in my mind, "ah I should go buy some milk," while I'm trying to be "in presence". In fact anyone who wishes to learn how to be distracted, should listen to me. Damn, now where am I?

I'd do that but some have bodyguards.

Car bombs work for that.