MINDFULNESS
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ISSUE 83 2020
Mindfulness -
Are We Really Thinking About It In The Right Way?
Mindfulness, a big buzz word in the wellbeing world at the moment. Backed by neuroscience, 8 week Mindfulness Courses grow the problem solving and emotional regulation parts of our brain. They also build our resilience through shrinking the fight or flight mechanism. Mindfulness works with helping us with stress and anxiety or simply being more productive and it's a great tool to help build our awareness. In particular, the world we live in nowadays simply seconds are given to each task as we scroll through social media while watching TV, splitting our attention in many areas. Mindfulness can help bring us back to the present moment and focusing on one thing at a time. But are we thinking about it totally wrong? This might be a bit of a controversial one but I’m
interested in what you think. Sometimes when we practise Mindfulness, I feel we are searching for something (I can relate to this myself). We want the calm and nice feeling, so we start searching for it and almost become addicted to it. We become hooked to the calm feeling it gives us and become almost selfish about it. This doesn’t feel right when you go back to the roots of what mindfulness is, wanting to feel calm and wanting it to be a certain way just doesn’t fit with what its meant to be all about. In particular the non-judgemental elements to it, if we are expecting it to be a certain way we are making judgements about it. If we have a bad experience and we think it’s the ‘wrong’ way to practise it then we are making judgements about this too. Yes, sometimes when I practise it, I get the warm fuzzy feeling, but also I sometimes
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