With the sheer pace of life in our technology-driven world, clients are increasingly reporting feelings of stress, tiredness and anxiety, and that they just never stop. In response to this, I undertook a diploma in Mindfulness and Meditation to add to the bodywork therapies I offer. Practise of these simple techniques Re-Mind us of that which we forget we already know leave us better equipped to manage our busy, pressured life-styles.
Multi-tasking is essential to modern life, but also the art of doing nothing is one to be cultivate and valued. Mindful meditation will enable you to switch the brain from the beta frequencies of arousal and action to the alpha and theta frequency levels of relaxation, intuition, reflection, rejuvenation and inspiration. It is at these levels that the body’s natural healing mechanisms are instigated.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy: Hippocrates
Where the mind goes the body follows – that is the message of mindfulness. If we keep thinking about our fears, worries and stress we will get more of them. The mind-body link is an incredibly powerful tool to create positive change in our lives – if we change how we think we can change how we feel!
‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so’. Shakespeare
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. Paracelsus
Have you ever driven or walked somewhere and arrived at your destination only to realise you remember nothing about your journey? Most of us have!
This is a common example of ‘mindlessness’ – a state also referred to as being on ‘autopilot.’
When in autopilot (and research shows that the average person is in autopilot 47% of the time) our attention is absorbed in our wandering minds and we are not fully present in the our own lives.
Living in a busy, technology-driven world it is all too easy to lose ourselves in autopilot for much of the day….every day. This causes us to fail to notice the beauty of life, fail to hear what our bodies are telling us and we all too often become stuck in automatic and conditioned ways of thinking and living that may be detrimental to our mental wellbeing, becoming more vulnerable to anxiety, stress, depression and reactivity.
Mindfulness is the opposite of mindlessness.
It means waking up out of autopilot and taking control of our attention.
We practice mindfulness by maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and the surrounding environment.
Mindfulness also involves non-judgment and the development of an objective viewpoint. By paying attention to our thoughts and reactions with the attitude of an impartial witness, we can begin to recognise and change the long held negative patterns of thought and behaviour that we unconsciously use to hold ourselves back.
Mindful meditation differs from other forms of meditation in that it Re-Minds us of how to just be present, and to notice and appreciate what is around us. Emptying the mind is not necessary. Meditations can be practised by– bringing attention to each in and out breath as we sit; focussing on each step whilst walking, even washing up can be a meditation, if we think only of washing up whilst we are in the action of doing it.
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