You will grow older every day but you will have a wiser relationship with your possibilities, the enemy of mindfulness and indeed any meditation practice is getting lost in thought, most of us spend every moment of our waking life thinking. Without knowing what we are thinking, and this automatism is a kind of mesh that is cast over the present moment through which we see everything and distorts our life, meditation is a tool to interrupt this continuous conversation that we have with ourselves.
If you practice mindfulness for ten minutes a day or ten minutes three times over the course of a day, something extraordinary catches your attention and that has to do with the fact that we all multitask today. Focused attention is an endangered species, we rarely, if ever, pay attention to simply being present. And that’s really what mindfulness and meditation are trying to balance a little bit, so that when the mind calms down and you’re really at home in your body, then that distraction fades away and you really get in touch with that underlying happiness. which the Greeks call eudaimonia, research shows that people who meditate can increase their attention span, if we calm our mind we can somehow take in things in our environment better, which also makes sense in terms of how divided our mind is. mind regarding multitasking, etc. When our mind is very calm, we can literally see more things, record more.
Meditators not only turn off their brain’s default network mode while meditating, but even when they are not meditating. In other words, meditators are establishing a new default mode. And what is that default mode? They are focused on what is happening right now.
There was a Harvard study showing that short, daily doses of meditation can literally grow gray matter in key areas of the brain that have to do with self-awareness and compassion and reduce gray matter in the area associated with stress.
We all need that peace of mind. So peace of mind comes from mindfulness.
One good mental quality leads to the next and the next and the next. Life is not perfect. Life will never be perfect. No matter how much we strive to be perfect, there is no such thing as a perfect everything. We are humans. It’s wonderful to have patience. So if someone that’s in your life, if he or she is so stressful and at that moment sometimes there’s not necessarily not a lot of room to communicate, just be patient.
A tip to start with the practice of meditation is to do it in a very, very small way with things that you can do on your own, just breathe, meditate, focus on breathing, this is a technique that eliminates our thoughts.
Peace, love and ligth
Mike Martínez
