Here's quick a look at Mindfulness Meditation:
- Mindfulness meditation is a form of meditation that has undergone extensive study and testing in therapeutic settings.
- Meditation isn't about meditating on nothing.
- Meditation is devoting systematic attention to anything you want to concentrate on, which may involve being aware of your thoughts.
- You may uncover your thoughts' regular patterns by listening to them.
- Being more conscious of your thoughts is beneficial since they have a significant effect on your emotions and choices.
During mindfulness meditation, you usually concentrate on one or more of the following:
- The sensation of your own breathing
- Any of your senses
- Your body
- Your thoughts
- Your emotions
- Whatever is now occupying your attention.
There are two kinds of mindfulness meditation:
1. Formal meditation is a kind of meditation that takes place in a controlled environment.
- This is a kind of meditation in which you take time out of your day to practice meditation.
- Time out allows you to develop your mindfulness practice and get a better understanding of your mind, its habitual tendencies, and how to stay mindful for a long length of time while being compassionate and curious about yourself and your experience.
- Formal meditation is a kind of mental conditioning.
2. Meditation in a non-formal setting.
- This is when you get into a concentrated and meditative state of mind while doing things like cooking, cleaning, going to work, chatting to a friend, driving, or anything else.
- Consider it regular attentiveness.
- As a result, you'll continue to improve your mindfulness skills and teach your mind to remain in the present moment rather than drifting off into the past or future.
- You may relax in a mindful awareness at any time of day, whatever you're doing, using informal mindfulness meditation.
I don't mean a rehearsal when I say "practice" in the context of meditation.
To practice meditation, it is to participate in the meditation exercise - not to practice in the sense of attempting to master it one day.
You don't have to evaluate or improve your meditation in any way.
Your experience is unique to you.
You may also want to read more about Mindfulness Meditation here.
