Miracle of Mindfulness <br />Free Mindfulness Course http://stressfreeyou.org/mindfulness <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVadUUT_1W8 <br /> <br />Mindfulness is a lot like physical fitness. <br />Now stay with me on this. <br />When we talk about physical fitness we're really talking about three different things: endurance, strength and flexibility. and when we say <br />that someone is physically fit we mean that they have endurance strength and <br />flexibility working together. <br /> Mindfulness is like that. It's three different things working together: concentration, sensory clarity and equanimity. And when we say that someone is mindful we mean that they have <br />Concentration, sensory, clarity and equanimity working together. <br />No matter what your natural level of fitness is you can develop your endurance strength <br />and flexibility by working out and it's this way with mindfulness too . <br />You can develop more concentration clarity and equanimity. People exercise in the gym <br />and the more consistently they go and the more effort they put into it the <br />faster they see results. And it works the same way with mindfulness <br />The more consistent effort you give it the better and faster you'll see results. <br />Now most people don't go to the gym so that they can be better in the gym. <br />They do it to improve their everyday lives outside the gym. <br />Likewise we don't meditate to become better meditators. <br />We meditate to improve our everyday lives when we're not meditating. <br /> With consistent exercise you can raise your level of baseline fitness. <br />That is you can raise the level of endurance, strength and flexibility available to you all the time. <br />With consistent mindfulness practice you can raise your level of baseline mindfulness; the level <br />of concentration clarity and equanimity that is available to you all the time in <br />your everyday life. <br />Now let's talk about what these three skills are. <br />Concentration is the ability to pay attention. <br />Do you ever sit down to talk to a friend and notice that your mind gets pulled in a million different directions. <br />You start thinking about a problem at work, planning a project at home or checking your smartphone. <br />Concentration is the opposite of that. <br />it's being able to focus on what you want to focus on. <br />Concentration is probably the most useful skill you can possibly develop because it helps you do <br />everything better. <br />Can you think of anything you do work school in your personal life that wouldn't feel better with concentration. <br />Sensory clarity is the ability to zoom in on the individual components that make up your experience. <br />Instead of feeling angry for example you learn to track the mental images the mental talk and the emotional body sensations that make up this thing we call angry. <br />By detangling this experience you can learn to manage it much better <br />and weirdly enough you'll find that not only does this zooming in make the <br />unpleasant experiences less overwhelming but it also makes the pleasant <br />experiences more satisfying. <br />Equanimity is a little trickier to understand but it essentially means that you allow yourself to experience without trying to push things away or grasp onto them. <br />For example when something unpleasant comes up you don't try to suppress it. <br />When something pleasant comes up you don't try to hold on to it. <br />Equanimity means not interfering with your own internal experience. <br />Increasing your level of baseline mindfulness can lead to all kinds of good stuff, less suffering more fulfillment , a deeper knowledge of who you are, positive behavior changes and even the ability to help other people more effectively. <br /> <br />https://goo.gl/mNwecK <br />https://goo.gl/QckqN9 <br />https://goo.gl/wdGfrz <br />https://goo.gl/qhGFex
