Mindfulness and Meditation

 

 

Mindfulness Meditation

Meditation and mindfulness has been around for thousands of years and has primarily been practiced in monasteries in the eastern cultures. But when China invaded Tibet, monks spread all over the world and they brought a part of the Tibetan culture to the western countries. Slowly we began to accept meditation and mindfulness and since 1990 things have really speeded up. Today mindfulness is something you do just as if was another hobby.

What can Mindfulness do for you?

The most important thing mindfulness can do for you is to wake you up! This means, being more and more aware. Aware of what is causing stress, unbalances and eventually diseases. Stress is one of the greatest killers and it is sneaky. You are getting more busy over time, more and more stressed without realizing that something is wrong and suddenly one day… Bam! The body says NO! And you get paralyzed. You can’t do a thing and can’t understand your situation and you can’t get back to ‘normal’. Maybe you ruined some friendships or even a marriage on your way and you forgot to be present when your kids or your friends wanted to talk.

Stress is primarily a mental and an emotional state, and Mindfulness/Meditation Training can help you find out what is going on in your inner life, before things get out of hand. Mindfulness is the tool that makes you Aware what is going on in your mind, and a side effect of knowing your own mind, is that it becomes easier to understand and accept other people. When you know the thoughts that are speeding through your brain and the emotions that is rushing through your body, you are in control.

If you are riding on your thoughts through your mind, from one thought to another, you are not in control. The thoughts are! It is just like traffic on a highway. You are driving 100 mph. like all the others. You are late.

Why not try sitting in the grass next to the highway looking at the cars. See yourself from a distance. Just watching. Red car. Yellow car. Blue car. Small car. etc… Knowing that you are watching the cars (or your thoughts). Experience presence. Be more awake. Be Aware.

 

Give it a try here:

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20 years ago when I started my Mindfulness training we were only a few people meeting in distant places, far from the big cities, usually at some kind of small unknown meditation center we did not tell any one about in fear of being ridiculed! Meditation and Mindfulness was a more or less secret ’sub culture’ at that time.

We were young and I didn’t really know why I was attracted to this disciplin of Mindfulness Training. I think I was in a search for more wholeness or completeness…

And somewhere along the road I found some wholeness – or healing. It comes in doses and I realized that there always seems to be more.

The way I practiced was that I tried to remember being Mindfull all day long, which of course failed just as many times as I tried, and I also used 50 minutes daily to sit down, really trying to be Aware and Mindful, without anything to distract me. After a few years I ‘upgraded’ to 2 x 50 minutes a day and 3 years ago I took it up to 3 x 50 minutes. The purpose was of course to be able to help others which means that I really need to know what I’m talking about!

I can talk a lot about the benefits of Mindfulness and Mindfulness training and I’m more than convinced that it is great in living a healthy life, but all the stuff about physical wellbeing as a result of Mindfulness I will leave to the experts. I will only say that I believe there is a clear connection between Mindfulness and health…

Another thing that I’m much more certain about is, that it is possible to gain a deep insight in the human psyche, what is thought and what is emotion. What is Awareness. And what is even more important: Having a healthy relationship with thoughts and feelings. They used to own me. Blindly. And I didn’t know. One thing that is certain is that having this great relationship with my inner stuff is the most effecient way to handle stress!! Lot of emotions and lot of thoughts EQUALS lot of stress.

It is not your work or your boss that makes you stressful. It is the way you handle it. It is the way you handle all the thoughts and emotions that are stirred up all the time! Get a relationship with your inner life and discover deeper levels of awareness, deeper understanding of who you are and you will get a much more healthy relationship to other people and who knows…

I even heard that kindness is a result of Mindfulness Training…

  

 

Give it a try here:

Learn Advanced  Mindfulness and Meditation – Click here!

Or download the Free Introduction from the menu!

Here are a few good links to more Mindfulness seen through other peoples eyes:

1. Free guided Meditation – one of the absolute greatest resources!
2. How Mindfulness Can Improve Your Communication at Work.
3. 6 Mindfulness Medtation Tips.
4. A deeper understanding of the world – by “Cagsil”.