mindfulness

Welcome again on daily mindfulness, today I will continue the exploration of the “Mindfulness” word.

How can we increase our mindfulness in everyday life? How can we be more aware of all the things that surrounds us? How can we avoid to lose control over rage or all the other negative feelings?The answer is simple, by paying constant attention. What I mean with “paying constant attention”?I mean to start observing ourselves more and more, and by doing that we will improve our focus and control over our feelings and emotions.It’s not a bad thing to feel emotions, it’s natural and perfectly human to move from one emotion to another but most of the time we do not have the minimum degree of control over our emotion. And when we feel angry or the rage start to take us up that’s not a good thing.

So, observing.

We usually watch the others, it’s the easiest thing to do in fact. But if we point that look toward the inside instead of the outside we can find a all brand new world. In watching ourselves during our daily routine we really start to know all the underline things that can trigger our behavior in one way or another.One example can be made with a friend. Let’s say that some close friend of ours make a negative comment about our driving skill and we answer to that comment with an unnecessary burst of roughness. Normally we only wait that the situation dissolve itself but, if we observe ourselves while responding to that friend we can take a note from our reaction to a simple comment. And done that we can track down the cause for that unnecessary roughness. Maybe someone closer than that friend make the same comment the day before or that exact phrase trigger some childhood memory that upset us, whatever the cause may be we now can track her down. And by tracking her down we automatically remove the root of that particular negative burst of rage. Of course this only was a simple example but when we learn to watch ourselves in order to develop our mindfulness we can apply that trick to every emotion or feeling that may alter our behavior. As usual watching ours life and action takes more efforts than watch what the others are doing and where they get wrong, but make of this an habit and in a while we can avoid all kind of problems and remove gradually and with wisdom every “root” that trigger a bad behavior.

Mindfulness is the only thing we need in order to evolve.

Try and let me know.

Take your time.