Mindfulness - Steady The Mind

Mindfullness is the key to regulating your attention so that you get the most out of beneficial experiences while limiting the impact of stressful, harmful ones. It enables you to recognise where your attention has gone.

The root of the world for mindfulness refers to memory. With mindfulness you are recollected rather then forgetful, collected and gathered together rather then scattered apart.

You can be mindful of what is in a narrow field of attention, such as getting a thread through the eye of a needle, or a very broad one. such as observing the whole ongoing stream of consciousness.

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You can apply mindful awareness to both your inner and outer world, such as hurt feelings inside when somebody lets you down or a truck driving next to your car in the rain.

Other things could be happening alongside mindfulness, such as a companion for your hurt feelings or caution about a truck getting too close on a busy highway, but mindfulness itself does not try to change your experience or behaviour.

Its receptive and accepting, not judging or directing. Mindfulness holds your reactions in a spacious awareness that itself never disturbed by whatever passes through it.

With mindfulness

you can step back from your reactions and observe them from a more peaceful and centred place.

You can accept them for what they are while at the same time not being identified with them.

You can be mindful while also talking with others, making choices, and accomplishing one thing after another.