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Mindfulness throughout the day:
1) do one thing at a time;
2) pay full attention to the doing (sidestep analytic thinking);
3) when the mind wanders, bring it back to the "practice" (life);
4) repeat that step 10000 times;
5) investigate the distractions (wandering).
Being mindful in everyday life means to be pure consciousness in
everything you do. You'll have to be in the world but not of the
world. Be engaged in form and content, but not let yourself be
affected by form and content. You will appear to participate, but you
will be of a whole different level. This is the true purpose of
mindfulness meditation.
Practicing mindfulness meditation in everyday life is the next step in
practicing Mindfulness. Once you can make the shift from
unconsciousness to consciousness, from illusion to truthfulness, from
distraction to awareness, you will find it much easier to apply this
state of awareness to everything you do and to everything that
happens to you in the external world. Situations will no longer
activate your personal garbage of thoughts, emotions and other
impressions and yet you are there, present; fully conscious as you
reside in your centre of consciousness.
Try this by witnessing everything that happens around you and within
you while you live your everyday life. What do these situations in the
external world activate in your mind/body system? What do you feel,
what do you think about it, etc. Don't get too involved in answering
those questions; just remain the witness to everything. Don't think
about things, don't judge what you witness, just be. Practise retaining
this state of beingness as often and for as long as you can while doing
whatever it is you are doing. Always be aware of your inner self and
the mind's process by a technique very similar and complementary in
nature to the mindfulness meditation: Witnessing the mind.
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