Читать книгу Summary: Full Catastrophe Living. Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness. Jon Kabat-Zinn - Smart Reading, Ольга Ганкова - Страница 3

Every day on your way to work you see trees and buildings around you. You walk, drive, or take public transportation following a specific route, you live your day adhering to your regular pattern and everything seems familiar and ordinary. All this feels mundane and routine. But once you’ve changed your way of thinking, everything changes and becomes colorful, and you start seeing new opportunities and crawl out of the box of your mindset and limited view of life. Only in this way can we live every moment, penetrate its meaning and feel our wholeness.

Mindfulness practice stems from the Buddhist meditation tradition, but in one form or another it is present in many other spiritual practices. This practice’s special significance is teaching people to listen to their inner dialogues, listening to their judgements of themselves, and discovering the limitations they set for themselves, which in turn program us for achieving certain results. Does your inner voice think you won’t cope with the new job you’ve landed or won’t manage to make your special dream come true, because you don’t have enough energy, skills, or experience? Most likely that’s exactly how it’ll turn out. The reason for this is that our inner world determines our behavior and, consequentially, outcome.

Systemically training our brain, by practicing mindfulness for example, helps us free ourselves from automatic behavioral patterns.

Mindfulness is awareness and complete presence in every single moment. With the help of mindfulness almost any everyday activity can become meditation. Therefore, we can escape autopilot mode and inject ourselves into living in the present. We can respond to changes and cope with potentially stressful situations because we are in tune with our wholeness and know that we are part of a bigger whole – the Universe – and that we are interconnected.

Every human is initially whole, but sometimes it seems that our pain, worries and troubles in life disturb this wholeness. Basically, meditation is a way to retrieve wholeness and break the chains of habitual thinking. This is the internal work that leads to healing.