Thursday, March 12, 2015

Some Simple Mindfulness Training Techniques

By Lena Stephenson


You have since noticed that you tend to lack that ability to be in the moment. When life hands you situations, you tend to not really be truly present. You seem to either feel like a spectator as things are happening or you feel as if your thoughts are not really there. You seem to be always somewhere else.

You decided that this is not something that you would want to be experiencing the whole time. You do know that there are a lot of things that you can do to get this changed. You can choose to get into a mindfulness training. You will be surprised at how many things you can actually do to correct this.

If you wish to start pursuing these techniques, then see to it that you are willing to create a habit out of them. The key here is constant practice. Continuous practice would help you a lot into incorporating these good practices in the way you live life. They need to be interwoven in the manner which you deal with everyday living.

The key here of to introduce the many little adjustments that your life currently needs. They do not need to be grand gestures or complicated techniques. All you need to do is make it an effort that the little changes you are doing will be embedded into your life and become a natural part of it.

A good start would be to appreciate your eating time better. Instead of ogling at the tv or the computer screen when having your meal, take it at the actual dining table. Savor your food. Savor the taste. Savor the texture. Use this chance to really eat and be full ad be nourished.

A good way to practice your mindfulness abilities would be during those waiting times. You have experienced this when lining up in the checkout counter or waiting for your turn at the banks. Use this opportunity to take in your surroundings, process what you see, and really take in what are present in your current surroundings.

Learn how to better get a hold of your emotions to. It is always easy for people to flare up when their emotions are on the rise. When one is high-strung, it is often easy to say and do things that you are not supposed to do. Learn to control these urges. Do not let emotion take over. Remain reasonable.

Aim at being kind. Aim at being compassionate. You will be more in the moment when you have compassion for the people that are around. This does not only involve those people that you know or are close to you. Make sure that this includes those whom you do not know as well.

Listen to whoever it is you are conversing too. Some people often mistake hearing for listening. Others tend to have conversations where they just listen to respond to what is being said and then not understand what was being said. Make it a habit to listen- to truly listen.

Avoid multitasking. Sure, you might think that you are actually accomplishing a lot of things at the same time, but it has been proven time and again, that this is not the case. Uni-task. This allows you to focus and give your one hundred percent to what you are doing. Then, you get more than satisfactory results.




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