Mindfulness & Meditation
There is a lot written on this topic these days. In therapy I see how helpful it is to all the clients I work with, helping us to live more fully and giving us deeper, richer daily lives. I’ve been privileged to witness many clients make fantastic changes in their lives using mindfulness and meditation. It can help them manage their emotional distress, triggers and generally work through mental health disorders like Obsessive Compulsive disorder to mention one. If we look at ourselves from the third eye (like a fly on the wall) we see so much more and learn not to get carried away by our emotional reactions.
Watching the mind going around can be fascinating and when we don`t hook into the drama, we are not then carried away by it- so empowering and freeing. If we see the meaning that we put to our thoughts, we see how we get carried away by them. Instead we can learn to just watch, or to let go.
If we are curious we see more and we open our mind up to see the bigger picture. It`s not always easy or comfortable, but, change is born out of doing things differently, seeing the bigger picture and then taking the action. Mindfulness can help us to cultivate change and open up to our strengths, learning to keep progressing, even in the face of our obstacles. Our obstacles are ours. If we own them and welcome them in, we don`t waste our energy on fighting them, resulting in blocking ourselves.
Making the unconscious conscious is magical to the person who wants to develop, change, grow, create new experiences……..We become more open to our experiences, to use the challenges in front of us, to master our reactions and not suffer so much. We see more clearly what we can control and what we can`t and then don`t waste the energy on the things we can`t change. We then start to work more with our strengths and creative mind.
Remember-if we learnt it, we can unlearn it, if it isn`t serving us well.
It is amazing our capacity for change — we just don`t always see it, or believe it. Things happen and they say that it doesn`t matter what happens, it matters what we do with it.
The cultivation of one`s own character through mindfulness can be so amazing and enlightening. We can change one`s own thought process, one`s own view point, emotional inner world, reactions, rules, beliefs, let go of past baggage and so much more. When we start to see ourselves clearly (the ugly parts and nice parts), then we can be really honest with ourselves. They say we should disappoint others, and, never disappoint ourselves.Change is in the now.
Lets go on a journey of change………and see what we find……….