Mindfulness - The Art Of Living In The Present

One of the most important challenges in our daily lives is to stop our mind from thinking.

It is like a continuous machine. Working all the time - without any fuel, without any energy, and without any control. It just goes on and on and on producing thoughts, one after another.

Even if we do not want a particular thought or an impression in our mind, it still comes. We start with something, and wander off to something else, effortlessly. Mind wanders our thoughts in unimaginable ways.

So, what do we do when our minds wander. When we are really tight on a deadline to do something and the focus seems to fade.

When we know something is really important and yet, we are drawn to something trivial and unimportant.

It happens most of the time. Even if we chart things out, mind plays the wicked game. All the time..

But mindfulness, changes the perspective. 

Ever since I heard about being mindful, I wanted to understand how it would ever work. And it is simple to understand.

Mindfulness begins with answering this simple question?

Are you able to notice everything that is happening around you at the present moment using all our 5 senses? 

If yes, can you tell what sounds you are able to listen to, what odour fills the space where you are, what all did you watch happening, and what tastes did you recently enjoyed? Can you put them down on a piece of paper?

Real mindfulness is about bringing you to the present. No matter how it looks - and then dissociate yourself with that event. Confused?

Ever seen an old animation or a cinema frame?? How single bits of frames pass across our eyes, and we simply watch them passing by. We do not judge them - right or wrong, good or bad. We just watch the frames passing by!

Consider every event of your life as those movie frames. Each event just comes and goes, passes by. If we can live those moments without getting into the frame, you are free of the events outcome.

So, you are free of the suffering eventually. You are free from the emotions of the event and view things dispassionately.

Being mindful, brings you to the present moment.

While the mind fights from within, to distract you to the chaos, mindfulness cuts through the distraction and brings you to the moment in time.

Be in the moment.. Be mindful...