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How to Be Mindful When You Are Sick

Mindfulness While Being Sick

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We ourselves contribute to slowing down our recovery. Our never-ending responsibilities add to an additional layer of stress while we fight our illness, and our negative reactions compound our physical ailments.

Moment-to-moment awareness and a non-judgemental state of consciousness do not come intuitively while being unwell, as the mind tries to distract itself from the illness.

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A Guide to 7 Different Types of Meditation | Everyday Health

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Mindfulness meditation is the process of being fully present with your thoughts. Being mindful means being aware of where we are and what we're doing, and not being overly reactive to what's going on around us. Mindful meditation can be done anywhere.

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Mindfulness Meditation

It is the process of being fully present with your thoughts, being aware of your surroundings and not reactive to what is going on around you.

Although some prefer to sit in a quiet place...

Transcendental Meditation

The goal of this technique is to achieve inner peace without concentration or effort.

A person is assigned a mantra to repeat in a specific way. It is practiced 20 minutes twice each day while sitting comfortably with eyes closed.

Guided Meditation

It is also called visualization or guided imagery, where you form mental pictures or situations that you find relaxing.

It is commonly led by a guide, and practitioners are encouraged to use as many senses as possible to evoke calmness.

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Three Simple Mindfulness Practices You Can Use Every Day

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We're all learning all the time. Parents learn to care for children, students learn physics, soldiers learn survival skills, and all of us learn the latest app or how kale will make us healthy. But much of what we call learning isn't particularly useful: I just "learned" on Facebook that someone I hardly know baked cupcakes today.

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Mindful learning

It means cultivates insightful knowing rather than just a brain overloaded with information.

Mindfulness creates space to let new information in and to allow us to see how it rel...

Mindful Reading

It is a process of quiet reflection that requires mindful attentiveness, letting go of distracting thoughts and opinions to be fully in the moment with the text.

It slows down the reader and the reading—that alone changes the experience. It moves the reader into a calm awareness, allowing for a more profound experience and understanding.

Mindful Writing

Writing benefits from the capacities that mindfulness cultivates: being in the moment, even when remembering the past or imagining the future; not judging others and oneself while still exercising discriminating wisdom; holding multiple perspectives; being open to the new; and practicing kindness, compassion, and patience.

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How Meditation Works

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Mindfulness meditation is having a moment in the West, and with it some compelling reasons to understand and try it. Mindfulness meditation. Chances are that you've either heard or seen (or rolled your eyes at) these words in recent months, as studies, celebrity endorsements, and even apps continue to make headlines.

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Mindfulness meditation

It is based on Buddhist traditions and it's described as "the non-judgmental awareness of experiences in the present moment."

Sit in a quiet place with your eyes closed, focusing on yo...

How meditation works

It works through a combination of several distinct mechanisms:

Attention regulation. Focused attention for an extended period of time.
Body awareness. Paying attention to surroundings, thoughts and bodily sensations.
Emotion regulation. Learning to observe your thoughts and accept them without reactive judgment while refraining from the habitual response.
Change in perspective on the self.