Mindfulness -or being it- does not mean clearing or blank your mind to concentrate on something, usually entering a state of meditation. This approach, which is taken in many cases as -or relates to- Buddhism, is to be in control and in total attention of what happens through your thoughts, through your mind.
Although it sounds like something obvious, like something traditional, something we should often do, it is surprising to see how little we are in control of what goes through our minds, especially when we are bombarded with information, positive and negative, on all fronts and in all scenarios of life. This technique that has begun to be so striking in the West aims to help people adopt a state of greater concentration, towards tasks, life and what happens and how we take it and to a greater extent, how a thought can come to take absolute power of how -or not - we feel.
As I wrote in another post, the power of your thoughts; of your mind, is not something you want to overlook. If your mind were a tower of magnetic attraction, as many thinkers propose, you would not want to attract problems, uncomfortable situations or stress. I firmly believe that no one likes these scenarios, that although they are part of life, we are able to decide to what extent they affect us, and in this sense mindfulness is the tool that helps our magnetic tower called thought attract what we want and not the opposite.
The magnet you have in your mind will work whether you believe in it or not. There are those who claim that great people are those who have managed to stall the growth of destructive or harmful thoughts in front of what they want to build for their lives and that of those around them. Thought to which I adhere.
"The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder."
Augustine of Hippo
This technique comes from the East, and has come to the west to stay. Mindfulness is born in what is now the border between the subcontinent of India and Nepal, in Kapilavastu, which is why when we think of this term, the first thing we imagine is a monk, sitting and meditating. However, this tool is the ability that we have to be fully aware of what we think, do and say, in order to concentrate on what serves and react, mentally, in the best way to what happens around us.
The great purpose of mindfulness is to develop a higher mental discipline, with the purpose of being in the ability to amuse and block negative, counterproductive and toxic thoughts to fill the mind with completely opposite thoughts: productive, constructive and positive.
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