Читать книгу Summary: How to Live Mindfully with the Help of Meditation. Maria Gorina - Smart Reading, Ольга Ганкова - Страница 4

The ability to observe "from the outside looking in" all life’s phenomena, manifested both in and around you, is a "setting" that is important to activate as often as possible. To fully develop mindfulness, work at becoming an attentive observer who is really captivated by the object of his or her observation, but at the same time impartial.

Observers can live only in the now. For them there is no past and the future has yet to transpire, therefore there is nothing they missed – or that is yet to be observed. Your mindfulness is strengthening with every second of your existence in the now and with your connection to reality. Inhaling, exhaling – breathing is in the now; the chirping of birds – this sound is the now; pain in your knee – the sensation is in the now; tingling in your stomach, joyful anticipation – this emotion is in the now. We can agree on distinguishing several areas of people’s mindful existence. Being mindful of their: