Mindfulness Myths and Practice in Daily Life
Mindfulness is a way of leading the daily life. When talking of mindfulness, people are not able to differentiate it from the certain other commonly held notions. The purpose of this article is to list down those differences for better understanding and practice of mindfulness in daily life . Mindfulness Vs the State of No Thoughts Mindfulness is certainly not about trying hard to achieve the state of no thoughts. It does not require you to block the arrival of thoughts, good or bad. However, it does ask you remain a silent witness. It does not want you to make any hue and cry about these thoughts. It does not want you to jump into the goodness or badness, or relevance or irrelevance of these thoughts. It only requires you to just say, “ok, thoughts! You are there. I know that you are there and what you are about but I am not going to spend even a single cell of my body to work on you.” Mindfulness Vs the Vegetative State At times people are of the opinion that sinc...