Stories are powerful teachers. I wanted to share this one story on my own experience on how the problems can be eliminated with filling our lives with more happiness, clarity, and connection.
Mindfulness is really important as our minds wander all the time, either as we review the past or plan for the future. We are not thinking about everything else, and our focus shifts to that only.
Come back to your breath, the place where we can settle our minds.
Studies show that 8 in 10 Americans experience stress in the daily lives and have a hard time relaxing the body and calming their minds, increasing the chances of health problems like heart diseases, stroke and other Illnesses.
#Mindfulness meditation is within us and so is peace.
Buddhist monks have used mindfulness exercises as a form of meditation for more than 2600 years.
There are so many trainings about how to develop a more skilled mind and sense of focus that can help to maintain control and awareness of our thoughts, emotions and anxiety but any initiative to change starts with you, when you change and focus.
Start with a Confident Body Language
Step 1: Search for a peaceful place, use a cushion, sit straight up, allow shoulders and head to rest, place your hands on top of your legs with upper arms at your side.
Step 2:Close your eyes , take a deep breath , and relax .Feel the fall and rise of your chest and expansion and contraction of your belly. Notice coolness , don't control the breath but follow its natural flow .
Step 3: Thoughts will try to draw your attention, notice them but pass without judgment, gently return your focus to the breath and remove negative thoughts through self-enquiry.
Step 4: Visualize success , like getting your dream job / visiting your dream country etc.
A short story on Mindfulness
A CUP OF COFFEE WITH FRIENDS
Me and my friends from college and school days decided to go to our favourite coffee shop because my pals from college and school wanted to get together. We began talking about our careers since we were so happy to see each other, but the topic quickly devolved into gripes about our jobs, relationships, and lives.
We so began ordering our favorite coffee and, of course, our favorite cup with lovely, pricey, exquisitely arranged cups, and we made the decision to take them all, leaving the simple and inexpensive ones behind.
Normally, we want the best for ourselves, but that is also the source of our difficulties, tension, emptiness, and discontent.
While we were all admiring the lovely cups, we neglected to appreciate the coffee's flavor and failed to recognize that the cup didn't contribute as much value as the coffee itself.
Now consider: What is life?
Indeed, life is nothing more than a cup of coffee, with work, wealth, luxuries, social standing, and power serving as the cups. They are the instruments and frameworks that contain the present narrative of our lives, and the kind of cup hardly contributes anything worthwhile.
We cannot appreciate the coffee if we focus on the cup.
I would thus advise you to savor the delicious coffee as though you were seeking happiness, to savor each moment, to feel deeply, and to make the most of everything.
What makes a difference is to live simply, love freely, and talk kindly.
Tusharika Bhattacharya, postgraduate in Law, a Certified Confidence Coach from ICF and has studied legal psychology as one of the special subjects , I am currently working as an In-house legal counsel at a U.S based M.N.C. My interest include meditation, yoga and mindfulness and doing research to implement mindfulness and well being in personal and professional relationships and at workplace.
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