Today, meditation is often suggested as a way to combat the mental ill effects of the digital age and our continuous partial attention lifestyle. But meditation is capable of so much more than staving off unwanted side effects from our new way of life. Many well-known and successful entrepreneurs have used meditation to their advantage. It helps to clear away the unimportant chatter of the mind and focus it on the important problems.
Mindfulness is a simple form of meditation that consists of closing your eyes and breathing in and out in a quiet environment, slowly but deeply, until you feel relaxed enough to contemplate your feelings, thoughts and issues of the day.
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Your mind can experience many emotions in a single day, sometimes even subconsciously. Without examination these emotions can become apparent in the form of boredom, depression, stress (mental or otherwise), lack of motivation — even outbursts. A clear mind is a focused mind. In order to better understand what mindfulness meditation is, let’s talk about what it isn’t.
There are many resources that will help you learn the technique of mindfulness meditation in greater depth, and you're encouraged to seek them out and do so. But for the busy entrepreneur who hasn't yet had any experience with the benefits of the practice, here's what you need to know to be able to try it out right now and start getting acquainted with this essential tool.
What Mindfulness Isn’t
- Mindfulness isn’t complicated
- Mindfulness isn’t a religion
- Mindfulness doesn’t require “posing”
- Mindfulness doesn’t require special clothing
- Mindfulness doesn’t require a lot of time
- Mindfulness doesn’t trick you into feeling a certain way
As an example, you can meditate for only 10 minutes a day during your morning commute, wearing your ordinary work clothes.
Why Meditate?
Mindfulness can help you to examine your mental strains and anxieties. Anxiety is a terrible affliction that eats away at you and becomes worse the longer you leave it. Meditation offers you the chance to see firsthand what’s causing it; after that you can begin to construct a solution and ultimately lower your stress levels. Eventually, if you allow your anxieties to grow, your mental stress will turn into physical stress and fatigue.
A troubled or clouded mind tends to make you feel disconnected from the world — more specifically, from those close to you. By meditating on your thoughts and feelings for only a short while every day, you can be free to engage in meaningful conversations, rather than staring into a blank space while your loved ones gradually begin to give up trying to make conversation with you.
In fact, the core aim of mindfulness meditation is to help you focus on the tasks at hand. Not only can it can improve your relationships with others, it can make you more compassionate, more empathetic, more motivated, and significantly happier.
Identifying Bad Habits Through Self-Awareness
It’s natural to develop bad habits over time. Whether its late-night binging or checking Facebook during work hours, we rarely acknowledge our bad habits on a superconscious level; we know we shouldn’t be doing it, but we’re not actively sitting down and saying to ourselves, “I shouldn’t be doing this because…”.
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