Mindfulness and be the watcher in the Here and Now

	Duration: 03:46 minutes Upload Time: 2008-03-14 16:26:01
Mindfulness excercise with Jan M. Keppel Hesselink, MD, PhD, president Foundation IOCOB and experienced mindfulness and Qigong trainer. Mindfulness, a term that perhaps the best we can translate with aandachtgerichtheid in dutch. Being here and now in total attention, without focus, but all including is the key of this mind state. It is as it is at this moment, without being otherwise. Accepting all that is Here and Now and watching the mind, the body and the sensations. As if being the Watcher on the Hill, as seeing it all from afar, detached yet clear and crisp! Mindfulness is the practice of becoming more aware of the present moment, rather than dwelling in the past or projecting into the future. It generally involves a heightened awareness of sensory stimuli (really noticing your breathing, feeling the sensations of your body, etc.) and being "in the now." While mindfulness has origins in Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, there is no necessary religious component to mindfulness -- anyone, with any belief system, can enjoy the benefits of mindfulness. Studies show that mindfulness can be helpful in stopping ruminations over things that cause stress; it helps people keep from dwelling on negative thoughts. Mindfulness can also be used to decrease anxiety over the future. It can provide a break from stressful thoughts and allow you to take a mental break and gain perspective, among other things. As mentioned earlier, mindfulness can be achieved most simply through meditation. Regular practice of mindfulness meditation has benefits for your physical as well as your mental health. This state of consciousness is the condition of Mosha, the joy of the empty mind. Here we see how this concept is essentially the core subject of meditation (Indian: Dhyan). The word Dhyan defines the essence of mindfulness better and really captures the essence better than the term meditation. Meditation is a term that in the West is often seen as a kind of concentration, for example at one point or the breathing. Meditation However, the rest in an empty mind. Dhyan conjunction with Chan (Chinese) and is responsible for the Japanese Zen. Thus we see through these terms how the essence of mindfulness associated with a different state of consciousness. The consciousness of an empty mind. Mindfulness has for our two sides. The side which points to the path of the empty spirit in the side is valuable for patients. Die aspects we can work as therapists in assisting patients. Now something about the latter. Mindfulness and therapy Mindfulness can in today's medicine is an important complement to many different and can therapien patients with chronic diseases and, for example, depression and anxiety enormous help processes and acceptance of the handicaps. It is a dimension of our consciousness that we do not know as a Western man, and an enormous enrichment can mean for the patient, but also for the therapist. Because mindfulness is not something that is within a therapeutic relationship, as this is not the therapist also knows from its own experience. The essence of the rest in the empty mind when mindfulness is the relaxation in the 'watcher', in the pure consciousness that perceive ourselves in ho we are, how we move etc. Through continual relax in what has been, and that can be observed creates an identification with the problems and emotions and our whole ego. Then there will be space for new compounds and also, for example, for creativity.
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