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

Experienced meditators can concentrate better amidst distractions; Meditation, in essence, is training attention. Once you notice that your mind has wandered and bring it back, it will strengthen the circuits for focusing attention.

The mind is a mental gym and meditation is a basic exercise, the benefits of mindfulness become stronger and more importantly become traits, the benefits of stress management become stronger and stronger as as time goes by. Resilience is scientifically measured by the time it takes you to return to what we call your set point, that comfortable state of mind you were in before it made you lose your mind.

The amygdala, that trigger point for the stress reaction, is less reactive; It’s actually about speeding up our mental processes through which we can be more effective with whatever we’re doing, so that we have this attentional muscle that allows us to really focus on what we’re doing. we are doing. What are we doing. what we are doing, when you are in the present moment, even if you are doing a task that you don’t particularly like, you will feel happier.

There are features of our experience that we do not notice when we are lost in our thoughts, when you see that they are not your thoughts, then you can see them impersonally, rather if you observe it with kindness, with yourself. -compassion, because many of them are very loaded with negative emotions, when we recognize them, we naturally release ourselves into consciousness, the only thing we have to do is, in a sense, get out of our own way. If you are able, through mindfulness, to interrupt this conversation and simply witness the feeling, you will feel that the emotions are only a part of your experience, but they are impermanent and impersonal, that is, you are not your thoughts and/or thoughts. . thoughts. . thoughts. . your emotions. , and you have a very short lifespan.

Mindfulness allows us to change our relationship with our experience. Instead of getting caught up in our emotions or our thoughts, which is what happens when we are depressed or anxious, we re-see them as those thoughts or those feelings. And that takes away their power, labeling thoughts and emotions is becoming aware of them.

Meditation practices can really help you observe your mind and become aware of its tendencies, it is a fantastic way to train your mind to be more present in what is happening right now. I don’t think we transcend a feeling or a belief, but we can transform our relationship with them by being aware.

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«A wonderful serenity has taken over my entire soul, like these sweet spring mornings that I enjoy with my whole heart.

I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents.

I am alone and feel the charm of existence in this place, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents.»

Peace, light and love.

Mike Martínez