Mindfulness | Is your Mind full or Mindful?

Mindfulness is about living in the present moment rather than being stuck in the past or the future. So it’s all about attention?

Attention is a key aspect, but mindfulness also includes compassion, acceptance and non-judgment towards yourself and other.

As you go about your day. Your mind tends to jump around from one thing to another automatically. A bit like a monkey playing in the tree.

So when you’re going about your daily life?

You notice when your mind has wandered acknowledge what has distracted you and the choose how you want to respond do want to take action or return your attention to what you were doing?

I listened this morning to an hour's very interesting video by Chade-Meng Tan who talks about what mindfulness leads to. He spoke to a large group of employees at the company Google and what they told about the effects of mindfulness, I try to summarize below:

To train mindfulness leads to:

• -Sit now quietly wherever you are. (Quiet). 
• -Acuity. 
• -Ability to see things more objectively and remotely. 
• -Ability to perceive a feeling that pops up immediately. 
• -Ability to choose how we react and act on a feeling that appears. 
• -Increased self-awareness. 
• -Increased ability to self-mastery. 
• -Makes it easier for you to discover your resources / your strengths and thus also easier to perceive the opportunities this gives you. 
• -You can also take a look at your development areas and thus actively decide to develop them. 
• -Gives you greater opportunities to be well-liked and loved by both yourself and others. 
• -Giving you the basis for experiencing a state of happiness and well-being.

Find comfort in an upright position with your feet firmly on the floor, this way you will stay alert and not fall asleep.

If this leads to all this positive to get better on conscious presence or mindfulness, then I ask the question why not we are many who actually teach us this tool and actively practice it.

One answer may be that we do not know how to get better on a conscious presence.

Chade-Meng Tan tells us that it's about three important steps we need to take: 

• Giving it attention (attention) 
• Self-awareness and self-management (self-mastery) 
• To create useful mental habits

Listen to all his presentations below:

If we do this and, above all, take time to practice this, we will become more consciously present on time and this will lead us to change our lives by changing our personal behavior. 

But as with any other training. 

Here it is about starting cautiously and with small steps.

Have a long-term goal of striving for motivation.

Commitment, patience and endurance to keep it up, sometimes heavy, exercise. 

Compare this to, for example, you from practicing untrained to train to run your first marathon run or by bringing your first Swedish classic (somewhere near the age of 50 this usually occurs in most people's lives ...) 

The training takes some time before the Marathon or a Swedish classic, or at least should do.

Just so, even with mindfulness, I think the exercise. Are you prepared to first create and then stick to a regular exercise routine to achieve all the good effects mindfulness training can provide?

And here you can hear more about brain research that deals with how we work under stress when our reptile brain takes over and we lose our ability to think clearly. Brain scientist Katarina Gospic is attending the morning pass.

Mindfulness meditation a way of training your attention in gentle and non-judgment way -it can give you the mental space to choose how to respond to event. Rather than reaching automatically.

If your answer is no to the above question, are you prepared to make the consequence that you do not create a training routine and train your conscious presence?

If your answer is no to both of the above questions, I'm afraid you may think and think about it.

One of the answers to the two questions must be yes and the second no if you in future will have the privilege of feeling happy and successful in life.