Mindfulness to Well Being

 

The world has become a turnover, we practice our schedule’s whilst we stay indoors, that has become the new normal. On a daily routine, you might fold the laundry while keeping one eye on your kid and the other on the television. You might jot down the plan for the next day while listening to the radio or while having lunch. Finally, the weekend arrives and you alleviate with a gripping book or a fascinating Netflix show. Always being in a rush to complete tasks, do you often find yourself losing connection with the present moment? Do you have a habit of slipping off to the past or what future would be like? Did you notice your favorite tree has shed leaves or how forsythia blooms along your route to work? Mindfulness is the practice of focusing attention to the present moment – well, let’s explore that. Shall we?

The culture of mindfulness dates back to Buddhism. This technique helps to mold your thoughts from your current preoccupations so that you perceive a larger perspective on life. Let us look at the benefits of mindfulness.

·        Mindfulness and Physical Health – Mindfulness helps treat heart diseases, lower’s blood pressure, reduces chronic pain, improves sleep, alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties.

·        Mindfulness and Mental Health – Mindfulness meditation is the secret to a long and happy life. It has treated depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder etc.

·        Mindfulness and Well Being – When you focus on the now, you are less likely to get caught up in worries about the future or regrets over the past. You deal with adverse events more affectively. Extensively focusing on present activities, does boost self-esteem and creates promising connection with self. This technique has been brought into mainstream medicine. It brings positive psychological symptoms and other changes in health, attitudes and behaviors. 

Practicing mindfulness involves staying alert, focused relaxation by consciously paying attention to thoughts and sensations without any judgement. This will allow your crisp mind to refocus on the present moment. Let’s explore some mindfulness techniques.

1.     Basic mindfulness meditation:

·        Sit quietly, focus on your natural breathing or on a ‘mantra’ that you repeat on loop.

·        Allow your thoughts to be passengers, they will come, stay for a while and then leave.

·        Focus on your breathing or mantra whilst your thoughts pass by.  

2.   Focus on body sensations:

·        Notice the subtle body sensations such as tingling, fear, restlessness, without judgement.

·        Notice each part of your body for such sensations from head to toe.

·        Don’t lose on your focus on breathing or mantra whilst you notice these sensations.

3.     Focus on sensory:

·        Notice the sights, smells, sounds, tastes and touch, around you.

·        Name them silently accordingly ‘sight’, ‘smell’, ‘taste’ or ‘touch’, without any judgement and let them go.

·        Don’t lose on your focus on breathing or mantra whilst you notice these sensory. 

4.     Focus on emotions:

·        Notice the emotions that erupt or have been there since a very long time, without any judgement.

·        Begin a steady and relaxed manner of naming the emotions silently like joy, anger, frustration, without any judgment and consider them as passengers. Let them go.

·        Don’t lose on your focus on breathing or mantra whilst you notice these sensory. 

5.     Focus on urge surfing:

·        Notice your cravings for any addiction or behaviors and consider them passengers. Let them go.

·        Notice how you feel as your cravings enter your body. Replace your desires with your knowledge, in order to let it recede.

·        Don’t lose on your focus on breathing or mantra whilst you notice these sensory. 

The effects of mindfulness meditation tends to be dose related; the more you do, better the results. It takes both time and patience to utterly surrender to the peacefulness within. The only goal of mindfulness is to stop giving the authority to your thoughts and emotions. Just remember that in a world where people, including you are a part of rhythmic routine, it is important to take a moment to just breathe and live in the moment. Let go of the past and worry about the future when it onsets.

 

7 Habits to Buoyancy

 

                                                              

If there is one thing we would like to say to all fresher’s this year, it would be to take it slow. For someone who has just graduated, the result is a life of frantic insecurity, and, in the age of anxiety in which we live, mental illness gets greatest chance to attack us. For these young adults, life is not a playground, it’s a jungle. It is full of tough issues and life-changing decisions. And, that of a student’s parent isn’t any walk in the park either. Allow us to give you a compass to help you navigate the problems these young adults encounter daily. As a parent, it’s all well and good to tell kids how to live their lives, ‘young adults watch what parents do more than they listen to what they say’. How will a fresher deal with peer pressure? Motivation? Success or lack thereof? Through author Sean Covey, Let us duel on the 7 habits, shall we? 

1. By being proactive!

Being proactive is the key to unlocking other habits. As young adults, you need to take control and responsibility of your life. Proactive people understand that they are responsible for their own actions. 

2. Begin with the end in mind 

As young adults, you aren’t clear about where you want to end up in life, your values, goals, and what they stand for, you will wander, waste time, and be tossed to and fro by the opinions of others. You have to create a personal mission statement which will act as a road map. It will direct and guide your decision-making process. 

3. Put first things first 

This shall help you prioritize and manage your time so that you create a balanced focus between your personal and professional life. Prioritizing also means swotting to overcome fears and building yourself to be a strong soul. 

4. Think win-win!

You, fresher’s can learn to foster the belief that it is possible to create an atmosphere of win-win in every relationship. This habit encourages the idea that in any given discussion or situation both parties can arrive at a mutually agreed solution. This will help you celebrate the accomplishments of others instead of being threatened by them. 

5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood 

Most people lack the understanding of ‘listening’. One of the greatest frustrations in life is that many feel ‘not understood’. This habit will ensure you become an active-listener throughout important communications. 

6. Synergize your energies 

This happens when two or more people work together and create something that could not be done alone. This will ensure that you learn that it doesn’t have to be ‘your way’ or ‘my way’ but rather a better way, a higher way. This energy allows one to value differences and appreciate others better. 

7. Sharpen the saw 

As a young adult, you begin the process of emerging out of adolescence to enter a bright adulthood. When fresher’s ‘sharpens the saw’, they keep their personal self-sharpened to deal better with life. This means regularly renewing and strengthening the four key dimensions of life – body, brain, heart and soul. 

As long as the basic four dimensions of life are under control, adulting will definitely get a lot better. As freshers or young adults, life is a maze, the only way to get through is to take ‘one-step at a time’.