What is Meditation & Mindfulness

What is Meditation and Mindfulness?

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When you heard ‘Meditation’, what do you imagine first based on those words?

Personally, I can match meditation with Monk and the movie ‘Doctor Stranger’ main character ‘ Dr. Strange’ who self-trains himself for a cure.

Usually, Meditation is a really static activity, it is easily considered old-fashioned fashion and not suitable for the current era that changes rapidly every day.

Surprisingly, meditation has many benefits to control yourself.

Benefit of meditation

Then how does meditation help control yourself? When you start medication, by closing your eyes, your brain is disconnected from the current environment that you faced before. Once you start deep breathing slowly, your brain starts to think and care about your body. For example, by taking deep breaths, your brain becomes refreshed and your heartbeat is slower.

The next step is to go into your mind. By doing meditation, you have some time to face yourself such as ‘what do you like..?’ or ‘what you want to do?’. Although it sounds really simple and common question, most people never answer this question. they just push it back to the future when they have free time. Once you keep asking yourself, some concern or problem that you have, you will get some clue of it too. As you see, meditation is a useful tool for protecting yourself from harsh real life.

What is Mindfulness ?

This consecutive job can be done by other behaviors such as focusing on playing an instrument or panting. I am sure you felt about it in your life. When you focus on some affair, that makes you forget your problem during that moments. Once you totally in that time, you mode filled with happy and motivated. This is called Mindfulness.

Mindfulness is the broader meaning of meditation. Some author( I am not sure author’s name) defined that ‘Mindfulness is the basic human ability to fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us’ from book ‘Your guide to meditation’.

Mindfulness is the thing that you protect your mind by doing some specific behavior. Although you do not recognize the concept of mindfulness, you did mindfulness( by doing your interested activities). Mindfulness can occur not only for passive behavior like closing your eyes and don’t do anything, instead, it can happen by drawing or listening to music.

In short, mindfulness and meditation are necessary too to treat your stress and worry. Why don’t you start from now? Here’s a tip and posture to how to apply on your life.

reference from

Definition of mindfulness – Your guide to meditation

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