During meditation, your focus is directed toward just one subject at a time... One thought, one feeling, or one sensation. When attention becomes scattered or unfocused, you can softly do mindfulness exercises to direct your attention to the moment. It is completely normal for your mind to stray, your feelings to change, and for your bodily sensations to become uncomfortable or distracting. It is what you do with your emotional and psychological state during these moments that makes all the difference.
Mindfulness lets you recognize when your mind is wandering, when your tension is overpowering, or that the pain in your back is uncomfortable. Instead of becoming fused, or caught up in these experiences, mindfulness permits you to see them. In this fashion, mindfulness consistently brings your consciousness back to the present time, free from your internal dialogue and judgment of the "goodness" or "badness" of any of your thoughts, emotions, or sensations. It is pure awareness.
Consider how persistently distracting some of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations can be. Reflect for an instant upon how convincing they can be about what's true or how it is. Mindfulness lets you detangle yourself from the grip of this false sense of reality, step back and detach from your fusion to your idea of self, and observe reality with more openness and acceptance. Focus your mindful awareness with as much persistence and practice as these thoughts, feelings, and sensations have with convincing you of their messages.
Consider how long it has taken you in the years of your life to become completely convinced of the basic validity to your thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they arise. Start to embark upon a new journey towards viewing your lived experience with openness, curiosity, and acceptance without judgment. Instead of presuming that thoughts are true as they arise in your brain, see them, observe every part of them, and question them.
Observe how much better it starts to feel as you remove yourself from the paralysis of fusion to your experience. This is pure awareness. This is mindfulness.
Mindfulness lets you recognize when your mind is wandering, when your tension is overpowering, or that the pain in your back is uncomfortable. Instead of becoming fused, or caught up in these experiences, mindfulness permits you to see them. In this fashion, mindfulness consistently brings your consciousness back to the present time, free from your internal dialogue and judgment of the "goodness" or "badness" of any of your thoughts, emotions, or sensations. It is pure awareness.
Consider how persistently distracting some of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations can be. Reflect for an instant upon how convincing they can be about what's true or how it is. Mindfulness lets you detangle yourself from the grip of this false sense of reality, step back and detach from your fusion to your idea of self, and observe reality with more openness and acceptance. Focus your mindful awareness with as much persistence and practice as these thoughts, feelings, and sensations have with convincing you of their messages.
Consider how long it has taken you in the years of your life to become completely convinced of the basic validity to your thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they arise. Start to embark upon a new journey towards viewing your lived experience with openness, curiosity, and acceptance without judgment. Instead of presuming that thoughts are true as they arise in your brain, see them, observe every part of them, and question them.
Observe how much better it starts to feel as you remove yourself from the paralysis of fusion to your experience. This is pure awareness. This is mindfulness.
About the Author:
Laura Schenck is a doctoral student of counseling psychology at the University of Northern Colorado. She comes to her time with clients from the mindfulness based perspectives of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). See Laura's website, Mindfulness Muse, for more of her ideas on mindfulness.
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