The earliest meditation was to join a 100-day meditation group, and the group owner introduced many benefits of meditation. Heart, he did 15 minutes a day, punching in. However, because it is easy to get sleepy when sitting, it was once interrupted. By chance, I met a lay disciple of Wu Tangmen, and he told me that I could try standing meditation, which lasted for two years.
Two years of standing meditation has benefited me a lot. Twenty minutes a day, no matter how weak and tired you are, when you finish standing on the pile, you will feel refreshed, clear-headed and gradually increase your attention. More importantly, I can always observe my heart, talk to myself, be aware of myself a little, and feel a quiet and happy life in busy time.
I wrote so much, not because I wanted to say something about standing meditation, but because the book Mindfulness Revolution at hand made me feel the benefits of meditation. Yes, what I really want to say is actually this book.
The author of Mindfulness Revolution is American Donald altman, a best-selling author, a professor at Lewis Clark University and a psychotherapist. His mindfulness theory is one of the most influential theories in the United States in recent ten years, and it is sought after by many well-known enterprises in Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
This book is divided into four parts, each part introduces a key point, and each key point contains nearly 10 exercise methods, including 39 exercise methods. If you practice regularly according to different situations and different purposes, you will know how to find peace, tranquility and happiness at any time-even when you are confused and confused.
Since we talk about "mindfulness", it is necessary to introduce what "mindfulness" is. The essence of mindfulness is to let you return to consciousness, just like a way home, to let you return to your innate strong consciousness, not to be bothered by the outside world, and to concentrate on living in the present. A critic once concluded that "mindfulness" means "do whatever you want, just sit down".
"Mindfulness" can help us perceive our hearts and change our way of thinking. At the same time, it can also help us find ourselves in the complicated and hectic life, relieve stress and bid farewell to irritability, depression, emptiness and boredom. Because when you can talk to your inner self, you get an understanding, an understanding, a thoroughness, a heartfelt relaxation and happiness.
I've been practicing calligraphy recently, because besides writing that smelly word better, I also want to cultivate my self-cultivation and make myself more introverted and calm. However, although the idea is good, it is not satisfactory to do it. When I was practicing calligraphy, my mind seemed to be rushing around and making noise. Sometimes words are misspelled, either one more or one less, which is very annoying.
After watching Mindfulness Revolution, I tried to take a deep breath for 5 ~ 10 minutes with the abdominal breathing method taught by the author, and gathered my consciousness in my body. Then ask yourself what you are doing now, how you feel, and how you can practice your handwriting. After that, the confused thoughts gradually faded away and the heart became calm. I focused on words, observed the bookshelf structure of words, and wondered how to write the strokes of words better than before. I gradually became interested in practicing calligraphy, and my handwriting is getting better and better every day.
Grandma Moses once said: To truly love yourself is not to sacrifice all your time and energy to strive for a brilliant future, but to try to do what you like and do interesting things in the present to make your heart full of joy. Look, isn't that what mindfulness helps us do?
The power of mindfulness can cover all aspects. Losing weight is no exception.
Dieting and exercise were the main ways to lose weight in the past. However, it is undeniable that although these two methods are effective, they are also prone to pain and fear, and improper methods will also cause certain harm to the body.
In fact, our eating habits are not formed overnight and cannot be changed overnight. "Mindfulness" teaches us to "eat with heart" and can also play a role in losing weight.
The specific approach is:
1. Control the pressure. Because you have to learn to control stress before you can pay more attention to the food itself. This can be achieved through meditation, exercise and listening to music. In addition, pay attention to your emotions. Emotional changes will affect our eating habits.
2. Slow down your meals. Only in this way can we notice satiety and hunger. Because the brain will not receive the signal of "full" until 20 minutes after eating. If you eat too fast, it is easy to eat too much.
3. Concentrate on eating, or at least concentrate for a while. Appreciate the food that dances and blooms on the tip of the tongue, and feel its delicious, wonderful and enjoyable taste. In addition, create a quiet dining environment and watch less mobile phones, iPad, TVs, etc. When eating, so that we can concentrate on eating.
4. Be friendly to hunger. Try to estimate your hunger before eating. 1 is not hungry, 10 is extremely hungry. When the hunger index reaches 4 ~ 6, you can eat it, which is helpful to control your diet and avoid overeating due to extreme hunger.
Look, with our knowledge of diet, can we also lose weight? Give it a try!
Everyone has had the experience of focusing on something, or reading a book, or doing a problem, or doing a craft ... Think about that time, without exception, we were all immersed in what we did, and we were calm and happy, but we forgot everything, but we were extremely happy. Yes, this is the power of concentration and the power of "mindfulness".
I am a person who likes to do several things at the same time. For example, while cooking, cutting vegetables, listening to books, chatting on WeChat, and even turning around and watching TV. Sometimes I ignore all this, and my thoughts have already drifted away. The information society makes electronic media greatly involved in our daily life, and we inevitably rely on them because they are simple and fast.
But is this really good? Looking at the pieces with uneven shredded thickness and different sizes, I think about where the book has been read, what is on TV, and whose gossip my friend WeChat is talking about ... A kind of urgency and panic "Shu" strikes, which is very scary.
Realizing that this was not good, I turned off the Himalayas, turned off the TV, turned off the WeChat chat, and devoted myself to cutting vegetables, smelling the fragrance of cucumbers, watching the crisp potato ribbons with the delicate flavor and spicy taste of garlic, cutting the red tomatoes into hob pieces, and tearing the black fungus into small pieces and lying quietly on the plate. Only then did I feel the richness and beauty of life, and I was full of gratitude and gratitude to nature.
This is also the power of "mindfulness", returning to simplicity, purity and nature in concentration, connecting life with life, feeling purity and beauty bit by bit, allowing yourself to live in the present, experience the heart and joy of every moment, and not be afraid of the past or worry about the future.
Mindfulness Revolution is a psychological book, which is different from traditional psychological books and so obscure and profound. On the contrary, it is readable and practical. In particular, the practice methods introduced in the book are simple and easy to operate, which have a positive effect on reducing stress, eliminating fear and fatigue, improving interpersonal relationships and achieving physical and mental harmony.
In fact, "mindfulness" can be used everywhere, just like my experience of practicing Chinese characters and cutting vegetables, which can guide our "mind" back to the right path at any time.
Finally, I wish every reader can find inner peace and harmony and have a rich, intelligent and happy life.