Summary: How to Live Mindfully with the Help of Meditation. Maria Gorina
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Have you ever tried peeling potatoes, devoting to this activity all your fullness and strength? Have you tried to play with your child the way children play: putting aside thoughts about work, forgetting about your phone and immersing yourself in the construction of a Lego castle? Have you tried listening to your partner, focusing on his or her words, emotions, voice, and not on your thoughts? Consciousness, or mindfulness, is the ability to be in the here and now, to experience the fullness of life. This skill not only makes us healthier, happier and more stress-resistant, it also gives us back our lives – those hours and minutes when we failed to live properly, when we were lost in our thoughts about who knows what. This article is a brief guide to mindfulness: using it to benefit your body, emotions and thoughts, as well as actions and relationships. Read it and live life to the fullest!
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Smart Reading. Summary: How to Live Mindfully with the Help of Meditation. Maria Gorina
What is Consciousness or Mindfulness
Why Practice Mindfulness
How to Develop Mindfulness
Everything Starts with Your Body
What Do You Do With Your Emotions?
Cogito, ergo sum?
Mindfulness of Activities
Mindfulness of Relationships
Techniques to Develop Mindfulness
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What does it mean to make decisions consciously, to have a mindful conversation, to drive consciously, to mindfully play with a child? Doesn’t it imply that we live in an unconscious state and that we require special training to live "inside ourselves"? That seems to be the case.
We spend a considerable part of life "on autopilot", existing mainly in our head rather than in reality. We eat while scrolling our Facebook feed, we drive while listening to some podcast, we make love while planning tomorrow’s meetings. The most beautiful sunset above the ocean cannot distract us from the consuming dialog we’re having with our inner critic and our reliving a failure that happened a year ago. No wonder the life we are living at this very moment gives us little pleasure and satisfaction. Yet, at the same time, everyone has experienced mindfulness at least once.
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This state is known as "consciousness" or "mindfulness". There are three key points to it:
You can develop mindfulness by being regularly aware of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations, while at the same time being aware of what is happening externally. This includes acceptance of and the ability to watch your thoughts and feelings without judgement, without labeling them "good" or "bad", "right" or "wrong". By practicing mindfulness, people learn to focus on what they are experiencing at a given moment without getting distracted by thoughts about the past or the future.
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