A moment when Mindfulness overcame me

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You need to reap Mindfulness benefits too

I've just been touched with Mindfulness. Are you familiar with it? The most traditional method in it is a type of meditation focused on not letting your mind drift, at the same time you observe it. Looking at your own thoughts as they come, but as a version of you who can see things more logically and without bias. Keeping whatever impulses and sudden desires away are very hard, but it is the most important thing to do while practicing Mindfulness.

While I'd advocate everyone should meditate in this method every single day of their entire lives, my money is not where my mouth is, as I don't do it myself. It's one of those very healthy habits we want to, but usually don't pick it up. So it was very surprising to me when, all of a sudden, my current path lit up in my brain and I thought I wasn't pleased. I thought about the things I'd have to change in order to get where I want it to be.

There are people who rely heavily on me, both financially and emotionally. It might sound arrogant of me when you read this, but they would either be miserable or dead if our paths hadn't crossed. So it is saddening when I decide I have to make them a little less happy, so my life can be better. I think I deserve it, but they will be better off when I'm better off too, so it's all up to me. It's time to be selfish, even if it's for their own sake too.

I don't think this would have happened in such a crystal clear way if I wasn't aware of how Mindfulness worked. Maybe it would slip by. Not a luxury I can afford. So guess what! Just like you should, I'm going to start practicing Mindfulness again every day. Care to join me? The image in this article was sourced here, where you can also read more about it: https://www.mindful.org/how-to-practice-mindfulness/



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This whole mindfulness thing and silencing the thoughts can be very good, when the thoughts are silenced like that there is always a peaceful feeling, but I've come to find out that slowing down my thoughts like that is not good for me, my mind usually roams into some good ideas I would have never thought about deliberately on my own so I try to never slow it down or inhibit it.


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It is not about inhibiting it, it's about accepting everything you think of without losing track of meditating. Mindfulness is great, but it's not something you do 24 hours a day. Your ideas will still have a lot of space to go about.


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