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What Is Mindfulness
We all have a natural quality called mindfulness. It’s available to us in every moment if we take the time to appreciate it. Practicing mindfulness is practicing the art of creating space for ourselves—space to think, space to breathe, space between ourselves and our reactions.
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What You Need To Know Before Practicing Mindfulness
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- It is impossible to quiet your mind
- You have to expect that your mind will wander.
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Notice When Your Mind Has Wandered
Inevitably, your attention will leave the sensations of the breath and wander to other places. When you get around to noticing this—in a few seconds, a minute, five minutes—simply return your attention to the breath.
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Be Kind To Your Wandering Mind
Don’t judge yourself or obsess over the content of the thoughts you find yourself lost in. Just come back.
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Set a time limit.
If you’re just beginning, it can help to choose a short time, such as 5 or 10 minutes.
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Notice Your Body
You can sit in a chair with your feet on the floor, you can sit loosely cross-legged, in lotus posture, you can kneel—all are fine. Just make sure you are stable and in a position you can stay in for a while.
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How Do You Practice Mindfulness
While mindfulness might seem simple, it’s not necessarily all that easy. You have to make time every day to just keep doing it. Here are short steps to practice mindfulness
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Mindfulness, and meditation
People often get confused between mindfulness, and meditation. Although they form a similar image inside our mind, but they are a little apart.
Mindfulness simply means to wake up to the inner workings of our mental, emotional, and physical processes.
What meditation is
Meditation is exploring. When we meditate we venture into the workings of our minds: sensations, emotions and thoughts.
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Mindfulness is not value-neutral
Contemporary mindfulness stresses the qualities of impermanence and impersonality (no real self). Thoughts are encouraged to 'arise and cease', or to 'drift away in the sky'. We are encouraged to detach ourselves from our own experience with mantras like, 'you are not your pain.'
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