Mindfulness Leads to Focused Living

This is not an easy topic for me because I am not an authority, psychiatrist or neurologist.  I have read books and follow the line of thinking on how to simply concentrate your energies to be more creative.

Two great books are “Heal Your Mind and Rewire Your Brain” by Patt Lind-Kyle and “The Mindful Brain” by Daniel J. Siegel. He is a Harvard Medical graduate, doctor, psychiatrist, and teacher.

In my simple life style of writing and recreation I have eliminated a lot of the monkey brain chatter that affected me and afflicts most people with over crowded agendas.

Mindfulness described differently by the above authors is opening up the mind/brain synchronicity to fuller experiences of the here and now by calming the chatter.

The advantage of focused calmness is that it allows more creative thoughts to enter the mind and funnels the mind/brain energy to pursue those thoughts.

I find my mind only has so much energy for concentration at a time, so when I have spent it on a writing session, I have to do something to recharge which might be exercise, recreation, or simply settling into experiencing my environment.

Mindfulness is the development of focus on one thing at a time. It is meditation or the exclusion of distracting thoughts, however you want to see it.

People with ADD and other afflictions have mind/brain systems that cannot concentrate on a thought to the exclusion of distractions.

Scientific studies show that developing mindfulness over a long period of time results in the frontal lobes coordinating all the activity of the four brains and creating greater health, immunity, self satisfaction, emotional stability, happiness, and mental acuity.

This develops the ability to release emotional traps that always trigger the same reactions and keep us prisoner to habitual behaviors.

Currently most people react to the input of their reptilian, emotional, and rational brain centers fighting to make decisions based on past experiences. This from infancy has created our distinctive personalities. This continuous filtering and reinforcing of who we think we are places limitations on how people can experience new stimulus and, of course, on growth.

It also distorts reality. When we only want to read for one message, we can’t experience full mental, emotional, and relationship growth.

Easy mindful exercises consist of concentrating on words, or sensual experiences until the mind wanders and then bringing the mind back to the original focus.

Most of us are doing one thing and thinking about something else. If we were to either walk and only think about the walking or sit outside and only think about the feelings we were experiencing, or concentrate on our breathing or think about a word we could start developing the discipline.

This exercise focuses and calms the mind. Instead of putting music into our ears every spare moment, why not think about what we are doing and what we are thinking about.  Observing what we are doing or thinking is another form of mindfulness.

Calming the mind does begin with eliminating most of the distractions we occupy ourselves with so that we won’t be bored.  Instead of distracting, we can focus on what we are doing.

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