Mindfulness

[Brian Ayers, CSCS]

Mindfulness is defined as a concentrated awareness of one's thoughts, actions or motivations. This can be a very powerful tool when it comes to making changes in our daily lives. We must first take the time to stop and think about what it is that we are doing and how it effects our lives. Only after we have done that can we hope to make lasting changes. This is a section from one of the readings that was given to us by the Wellcoaches program:

Mindfulness – The Secret to Health Change
Excerpted from “The Health Seeker’s Handbook
By Bob Merberg

Practicing mindfulness, a few minutes a day, is an important part of your daily life to support your efforts to improve your health. Finding a quiet place, breathing in and out and being mindful of each breath, for just a few minutes, will get easier with practice. When thoughts and feelings arise as you are practicing mindfulness, acknowledge them, and let them go. Don’t judge the thoughts and feelings. Develop equanimity – steadiness and composure. The joy in the moment will appear. Try a dedicated mindfulness practice – you have nothing to lose but your distractions.

Full awareness of the present moment will reduce or eliminate the challenges you may encounter as you change your health behavior or any other aspect of your life. For example, living in the moment will:

• Increase your awareness of what triggers unhealthy behaviors
• Help you keep unhealthy cravings at bay
• Elevate your sense of well-being – free from stresses about the future or the past – so you will intuitively take better care of yourself rather than trying to force it with willpower
• Enable you to cope with relapses without guilt, and with overall equanimity
• Liberate you from comparing yourself to other people
• Provide you with a healthful means to deal with anger, anxiety, or feelings of low selfworth, so these common and deep-seated emotions don’t undermine you
• Instruct you in how to “let go” of circumstances that keep you stuck

That’s the big picture. Mindfulness can deliver immediate returns in your everyday life:

• Practice mindfulness while eating – paying complete and quiet attention to the present moment and being aware of all perceptions related to eating – and you will find that you will naturally choose health foods, eat moderate portions, and “tune in” to your sense of satiation.
• Practice mindfulness while exercising, and you can eliminate boredom and shed those internal voices that generate reasons to not exercise.
• Practice mindfulness at work and when interacting with coworkers, and you will reduce your work-related stress.

[rajank]

Yoga is a way of life, an art of righteous living or an integrated system for the benefit of the body, mind and inner spirit. This art originated, was perfected and practiced in India thousands of years ago. The references to yoga are available in 'Upanishads' and 'Puranas' composed by Indian Aryans in the later Vedic and post- Vedic period. The main credit for systematizing yoga goes to Patanjali who wrote 'Yoga Sutra', two thousand Years ago. He described the principles of the full eight fold yogic discipline. He composed the treatise in brief code words known as 'Sutras'. 'Yoga Sutra' is the most important basic text on Yoga. yoga retreat It is through this basic treatise that the essential message of yoga spread throughout the world.

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