Enjoy the benefits of Mindfulness

The benefits of Mindfulness have been proven throughout numerous scientific studies and is even used as a supplement in the treatment of people with cancer.

However, it is necessary that you start practicing Mindfulness for the mere fact of enjoying being fully aware of everything around you. The benefits for your health will come in addition.

In Mindfulness we connect our 5 senses with what we are doing in the present moment, enjoying it and fostering curiosity and creativity in the activity. In this way, we discover the amazing power of the human mind. If you are too busy reaping the benefits of Mindfulness, meditation prostitutes itself and it is put at the service of a goal that is not intrinsic to Mindfulness.

The goal of Mindfulness is Enjoy the process of consolidating mindfulness. It is something like saying that happiness is not found at the end of the road but in its journey to reach it. The benefits that are obtained with the practice of Mindfulness such as a state of total relaxation, better mental and emotional health, and a better relationship with yourself and with others, are just the added extras along this path.

Allow me a paragraph to tell you a story that hides a moral very appropriate to understand the practice of Mindfulness:

However, in this article we are going to analyze some of the benefits that Mindfulness can bring you if you practice it with discipline in your daily life. Let us begin.

Benefits of Mindfulness

1) Mindfulness relaxes the body.

The body and the mind are almost a single entity. If your mind is tense, with anxious, automatic and negative thoughts, your body will start to get sick.

This connection between body and mind has been widely demonstrated.

The goal of Mindfulness is not to be more relaxed. Trying to relax creates more tension. Mindfulness is much deeper than that. Mindfulness tries to become aware of the moment and accept a certain experience. So if you are tense, the goal of Mindfulness will be to become fully aware of that tension. What part of your body feels tense? What is your reaction to stress, your thoughts?

Mindfulness tries to link curiosity to your experience. Once this is done you can begin to breathe deeply trying to feel kindness for the experience. This eventually leads to a state of relaxation.

2) Another benefit added to Mindfulness is the reduction of pain.

Surprisingly, Mindfulness practice has been scientifically proven to reduce pain level.

There are people who cannot find anything to help them manage and cope with their pain. Mindfulness is an excellent method that can help you in this regard.

When pain is experienced, the muscles tighten around the painful region and the person may try to think of other things to distract themselves from the pain.

Other people choose to get angry. This creates increased stress, not only in the painful region but also in other areas of the body. The person enters a constant struggle with his body and as a consequence his energy is significantly reduced.

Others, they react to pain with resignation. Pain takes hold of them and they feel helpless.

Mindfulness has a radically different approach. Through Mindfulness, the person focuses on pay attention to the sensation of pain, to the extent possible. For example, yes
Your knee is hurting, rather than evading your attention from the focus of pain or reacting in any other way, you focus on the area of ​​physical pain with mindfulness.

You will try to attract the best you can, attitudes such as kindness, curiosity and recognition
towards the area of ​​pain. This is not easy, but you can
improve with practice. You can then consider the difference between
sensation of physical pain itself and psychological pain. Physical pain is the actual sensation of pain in the body, while psychological pain is stress, anxiety, and frustration.
generated.

Through Mindfulness, psychological pain begins to be put aside to get only the physical pain left. When the psychological pain starts to
dissolve, the muscular tension associated with physical pain begins to relax and the perception of pain begins to diminish.

3) Another benefit of Mindfulness is mental relaxation.

Just as the objective of Mindfulness is not to relax the body, although this sometimes happens, the objective of Mindfulness is not to calm the mind, although this sometimes
it happens too.

Your mind is like the ocean, occasionally wild and calm at other times. Sometimes your mind wanders from one thought to another without stopping. At other times, thoughts come slower and have more space between them.

Mindfulness is not so much about changing the speed of your thoughts as it is about being aware of the thoughts that arise in the first place. By recoiling on your thoughts, you can float on the waves. The waves are still there but you have a better chance of seeing the show instead of feeling controlled by your own thoughts.

4) Another benefit of Mindfulness is that it helps you make good decisions.

During the day we take dozens of decisions, many of them unconsciously. Mindfulness tries to make your mind aware of all the decisions you make. This naturally implies that bad decisions are going to be drastically reduced. For example, in that state of mental relaxation that Mindfulness brings, you begin to value smoking a cigarette or not. You think it will be bad for your health and for your personal freedom. Under this relaxed state of mind and thinking in a rational way, you calmly decide to postpone it.

As well, awareness of your body can help you make better decisions. There is research that shows that in the intestine we have a mass of nerves that is like a second brain. This means that our stomach can be a good source of intuition when making decisions. For example, Michael Eisner, CEO of Walt Disney until 2005, says that his body reacts when it hears a good idea. Sometimes you feel it in your stomach, sometimes in your throat or on your skin.

Your unconscious mind has much more information than your conscious mind. By making decisions only on the basis of consciousness and logical thinking, the great capacity of the subconscious brain is lost. Mindfulness can help you deepen your level of consciousness and begin to tap into your intuitive, subconscious side.