Exploring Mindfulness And Meditation

In our every day lives, we are all guilty of ignoring our minds, allowing our brains to be lulled into a lazy, neglected, and unaware state. It is as if we are permitting ourselves to be sculpted by repeated and boring consumerism, our individuality being chiselled away by a tedium we can not even be troubled to challenge with any will.

Life need not be like that. We are each blessed with a powerful mind; but typically individuals have forgotten or, most likely, never ever even knew how, to use it. It is such a waste of our own greatest resource.

One method to begin to extricate ourselves from the meaningless quicksand is to carefully exercise our minds, using mindfulness and meditation as a method of bringing ourselves more absolutely into the real world, and begin the process of exercising control over our minds and our lives.

Developing a mindfulness meditation is a powerful however gentle exercise. How do you go about it?

A Simple Mindfulness Meditation Exercise

As with any meditation session, you require to enter into an unwinded and comfy position, eyes closed, and after that commence with deep nasal breathing, focusing your thoughts on the breathing to ease yourself into a meditative state.

When you feel that you are relaxed by your breathing which your breath is under your rhythmic control, then you can move on to focusing on your own body, a part at a time. I was very first taught this at yoga class, where we were taught to focus firstly on the left foot, concentrating on it from a position above ourselves. Then move up the body slowly, left ankle, knee, thigh and so on. When reaching your head, you then do the very same in reverse on the other side of the body: best shoulder, ideal elbow, right hand and so on.

When you have finished your tour of your own body, as if you were somebody else analyzing it, then it is time to open your eyes and increase your mindfulness of your environments.

To do this, concentrate on any object in the room; it does not need to be anything special: a cup on the coffee table, a vase, a plastic flower, anything. Try to preserve that focus for half a minute, and after that carry on to any other item. You can duplicate this a number of times, always maintaining a concentrate on your own body and your own breathing, developing a triple harmony with each object on which you focus.

By using this simple mindfulness meditation you are increasing awareness both of yourself and your environments, in a easy and very mild method. It can function as a prelude to some psychological job, along with belonging to a continuous mindfulness campaign to broaden the usage and reinforce of your own mind.

For example, most days I work, but often I simply do not appear able to concentrate on what I am supposed to be working on. I discover this kind of exercise, even just for 10 minutes, will snap me out of that inexplicable malaise, and I can get right on and take care of the work I was trying to finish on earlier.

As soon as you feel that you are relaxed by your breathing and that your breath is under your rhythmic control, then you can move on to focusing on your own body, a part at a time. I was first taught this at yoga class, where we were taught to concentrate first of all on the left foot, focusing on it from a position above ourselves. To do this, focus on any things in the room; it does not have to be anything special: a cup on the coffee table, a vase, a plastic flower, anything. You can repeat this a number of times, always preserving a focus on your own body and your own breathing, producing a triple consistency with each things on which you focus.