All you need to do is take 10 minutes a day to step back, familiarize yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm, and clarity in your life.
When is the last time you did absolutely nothing for 10 whole minutes? Not texting, talking or even thinking? Mindfulness expert Andy Puddicombe describes the transformative power of doing just that: Refreshing your mind for 10 minutes a day, simply by being mindful and experiencing the present moment. (No need for incense or sitting in strange positions.)
ALL IT TAKES IS 10 MINDFUL MINUTES
ANDY PUDDICOMBE
Key Takeaways
We live in an incredibly busy world. The pace of life is frantic, our minds are always busy and we are always doing something. When did you last take the time to do nothing, just 10 minutes to do absolutely nothing.
The mind, our most valuable and precious resource through which we experience every single moment of life. We rely upon it to be happy, content, emotionally stable, and also kind, thoughtful and considerate. The same mind we depend upon to focus, be creative, spontaneous and perform at our very best at everything we do. Yet we take no time to look after it.
We get stressed, and we are so distracted that we are no longer present in the world in which we live. We miss out on the things that are most important to us, and everyone assumes that’s just the way life is. How to be mindful and how to be present, not being lost in thought, not being distracted, overwhelmed by difficult emotions and instead to be present and mindful.
Mindfulness is stepping back, sort of seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going, emotions coming and going without judgment, but with a relaxed, focused mind. We are looking for a balance of focused relaxation where we can allow our thoughts to come and go without all the usual involvement.
Meditation offers the opportunity to step back and get a different perspective and see that things aren’t always how they appear. We can’t change everything that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.
The present moment is so underrated and yet we spend so much little time in the present that is it anything but ordinary. On average our minds are lost in thought almost 47% of the time, which is also a direct cause of unhappiness. To spend almost half of life lost in thought and potentially unhappy is tragic.
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We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.