La mindfulness (from English, awareness) is an ancient cognitive approach aimed at acquiring a new perspective of reality to face life in a more active and serene way. An always useful antidote, today more than ever, aimed at re-evaluating the present to make us conscious protagonists of our days, however simple and routine they may seem.
Inside mindfulness
Mindfulness aims to bring out the uniqueness of the moment in all its essence, regardless of the importance of the action. This cognitive process takes place focusing attention on one's psycho-physical condition. Above all, it does not give space to non-functional thoughts concerning yesterday or tomorrow. A recurring negative image or a period of suffering can find less welcoming ground if we implement a series of behaviors aimed at tuning our thoughts to a more aware emotional wave.
How to practice mindfulness alone
It being understood that the building blocks of mindfulness they originate in the psychological field, the fact remains that we can also practice it as an autonomous meditation. Choose a room in the house or a corner of your garden. Any place that makes you feel comfortable is fine. To avoid, the spaces that you usually link to work. Put on comfortable clothes and sit on the floor, perhaps on a yoga mat or pillow. Remove cell phones (except to load light music in the background to relax you) and intrusive thoughts. You will relax the more you will be able to focus on yourself. The long breaths through the nose, accompanied by the visualization of the respiratory act, are essential elements to start the practice and immerse yourself in a completely different state.
We are our mind
Visualizing the path of our breath through our body and performing the correct diaphragmatic breathing can restore the right heart rhythm. Furthermore, focusing attention hand-to-hand on a single part of the body, starting from top to bottom or vice versa, promotes muscle relaxation. It is incredible to think how much this procedure can be progressively deeper until the complete relaxation of facial muscles or parts of the body that we were not at all aware of before.
Mindfulness and science
Mindfulness goes far beyond the meditative approach. It welcomes psycho-therapeutic theories and practices that they have provided satisfactory results even in patients with attention deficit (ADHD) or in people with severe anxiety disorders or depression, among the many pathologies examined. An investigation tool with multiple uses that can be used in autonomous experimentation within one's own home as in a therapeutic path aimed at understanding much deeper and deeper difficulties. As is often the case, we rediscover pearls of wisdom from our ancestors. In this case, about 2500 years ago, between China and Greece. Apparently, its benefit knows no space-time limits.
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