Quote Originally Posted by FryingMan View Post
What are your approaches to maintaining mindfulness in very active, absorbing mental activities?
Reminding myself, as often as possible, about lucid dreaming, to keep it in mind, as well as be aware of my location. That, and I use "Big Stretch Reminder" to pop up once in a while with a custom message and remind me.

Or activities that tend to completely zone you out
That's interesting.. now that I think about it, I've been avoiding working with Zbrush for quite a while. Which is odd, I don't normally avoid it, I actually want to do it, but lately I'm avoiding it for some reason, and so it happens that this activity makes it damn-near impossible for me to remain mindful. Perhaps I've internalized that so I'm subconsciously avoiding it? Not sure, but thanks for bringing that up, made me realize it.

Do you take lots of little "bring it [awareness] on back" breaks? Like every page or two of reading? Any other hints?
For your reading, if you say you lose awareness extremely quickly, why not use a beeper or something that brings it back every minute or so? Better than getting completely absorbed and forgetting everything in and around you.