What is positive thinking?
Positive Mindfulness means being fully aware of what's going on around us, of what we're doing, of the space we're traveling through. This may not sound like much, but the fact that our attention is often not in the present moment bothers us a lot, our mind wanders, we lose awareness of our body, and before long we become obsessed with the past or worried about the future, which makes us anxious.
Positive thinking means being fully present, aware of where we are, what we are doing, and not overreacting or being totally overwhelmed by what is happening around us, which is the most basic human ability.
When we practice meditation, it doesn't help to focus too much on the benefits it brings, rather than just focusing on the practice itself, but believe that of course meditation has benefits, otherwise no one would practice it. When we are mindful and aware, we will be less stressed about ourselves and perform better, we will gain insights by observing our own mind, and we will care more about the well-being of others.
Positive Mindfulness Meditation allows us to put away our preconceptions, release our natural curiosity about the activities of the mind, and experience more warmth and kindness towards ourselves and others.
Please don't just be a reader, you must try it yourself.
Part I Misconceptions about Mindfulness
Some popular beliefs and ideas about mindfulness are completely wrong. When you start practicing mindfulness, you may find that your experience is completely different from what you expected, and the chances of being pleasantly surprised will be very high.
Positive thinking = stop thinking?
Meditation doesn't require you to stop thinking, it doesn't require you to try to enter a particular state of mind, it just requires you to take some time to familiarize yourself with how your original thought process actually works. Once you understand this, you will be able to stop thinking, but you will no longer be under the strong control of your thoughts.
Positive thinking = escapism?
Nothing escapes the truth, and far from being an escapist behavior, positive thinking is meant to take you right to the heart of reality, so that you can understand how your thoughts shape your perception of what you are experiencing, how your thought activity is causing suffering to yourself and others, and what is driving your behavior. Positive thinking is not an escape, and it is not a vacation; it is an inner practice that helps you to see reality better, and allows you to remove the falsehoods more gladly.
Positive thinking = selfishness?
It's true that even in a group setting, the moments of mindfulness are moments of solitude, but that doesn't mean that mindfulness is a selfish act. The relaxation and purification that comes with mindfulness helps you to listen better, to be more attentive to the needs of others, and to be more focused on being with your loved ones, and it is also a gift for the people in your life, and for the people in yours. is also a gift.
Positive thoughts = bad status?
The misconception here is that meditation puts one into a state of unconsciousness, akin to being half asleep. But practicing mindfulness does not make you dizzy and out of shape. Positive thinking training can make you more focused than ever before and more concentrated in life, in fact meditation can help you get into the best zone of performance at work and in life and keep it there for a long time.
Five reasons to choose meditation
One. Understanding pain. Mental pain and anxiety, like background noise, can be the source of much of what we do. Positive thinking allows you to recognize the source of the pain in the first place.
ii. Stress reduction. There is much evidence today that stress can cause many illnesses and aggravate others, and positive thinking can help people reduce stress.
iii. Better connection. Do you find yourself wandering, staring at your friends, your loved ones, your children, and having no idea what they're talking about, positive thinking helps you give your dear ones your undivided attention.
Four. Improve concentration. It can be frustrating to be unable to concentrate on something, and to have your thoughts distracted by things in all directions.
V. Remove distractions. Remove distractions. The flurry of chattering voices in our heads never seems to let up and doesn't let up. It's time to stop and take a break.
"People always tell us to live in the moment, but how do we do that? Positive thinking is a tool, a method, that teaches us how to actually do that." -Diana Winston.
Part ii? How to start meditating?
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I. How?
The practice of positive thinking meditation couldn't be simpler: find a place to sit down, focus on your breath, and return to it when your attention wanders elsewhere, and by doing this, you can come closer to yourself and learn more about your inner self.
1. Find a suitable place to sit, ideally a quiet space that is not too cluttered.
2, set the length of the exercise, otherwise you will always be thinking about when to end, if you just start practicing you can choose a shorter time, such as five minutes or ten minutes, and then you can gradually increase.
3, many people will do in the morning and evening meditation practice, or choose one of the two time period, if you feel very busy usually have no time, then do some will always be better than not, when you have more time, you can do more practice.
4. Find a comfortable position, sit down, and make sure your body is stable and upright. If there are some tense parts of your body that cause you to not be able to stay upright, then find a posture that will help you sit up straight and stay there for a while. Once the posture is established, feel your breath, inhale and exhale. No doubt your attention will leave the breath and start to wander, don't worry, just pull your attention back to the breath when noticing this, don't judge yourself or get caught up in the content of your thoughts, just come back. Leave and come back, just practice. A lot of people say it's very simple, but, it's not easy. All you have to do is to keep practicing and the results will benefit you a lot.
Second, meditation posture. Six steps to sit upright and comfortable.
1. Sit down and find a position where you can be firm and secure.
2, If you are sitting on a cushion on the floor, then you can comfortably cross your legs in front of you, and if you are sitting on a chair, it is best if the bottoms of your feet can touch the floor.
3. Sit upright, but don't let your upper body get too stiff, and keep your head and shoulders comfortably above the vertebrae.
4, let your upper arms and upper body to keep parallel, and then put your hands on the legs, adjust the body curve, not too tight, not too loose.
5, slightly lower your chin and let your eyes gently face downward, or you can close your eyes completely.
6. Stay like this for a while, sitting quietly and following your breath.
3. Am I doing it right?
The answers to the eight questions everyone asks about meditation.
1. How do I make time to meditate? How long is the right amount of time to spend meditating?
The French distance swimmer Ben LeConte once described how he was a "good swimmer". Le Comte once described how he crossed the entire Atlantic Ocean: "I never jump in the water to think about the whole ocean, I cut it into small parts, and when I'm in the middle of the ocean, I imagine that I'm in a swimming pool, and that the whole pool swims along with me."
1 How do I take time to meditate?
When you start to get into meditation, it's easy to get caught off guard if you imagine yourself and the goals you've set for yourself, less stress, more harmonious relationships, more focus, and world peace ---- between being in the middle of a whole ocean. Try putting your goals into a mental safe and forget about them and the ocean of breath that separates yourself from them, and focus all your energy on just the breath in front of you.
You can decide the size of the "pool" of the breath that follows you around, and it will change over time, and it will be different for each person, starting with five minutes a day, three times a week, or ten minutes a day, five times a week, but of course the more you practice the deeper you will go, leaving a certain amount of time to build up your breath. The more you practice, the deeper you'll get, and it's vital to allow a certain amount of time to build your confidence so that you don't get frustrated and let positive thinking become that toy that becomes obsolete once it loses its freshness, and with more confidence you'll be more willing to spend more time practicing.
2. If I do a lot of meditation practice, will I lose my sharpness and become negative?
Practicing meditation doesn't make you negative. The "danger" of meditation is often thought to be in sharpening your senses, and getting into the habit of reacting and waking up to everything, rather than reacting to it. You know what you need, and then you decide whether and how to act.
3. You can meditate while standing or lying down Well, I don't want my family to see me doing something weird.
When you start practicing, let your family know that you are trying something new, why you are doing it, and what it might look like when you do it.
Find a comfortable and supported position to sit in, with your spine straight but not stiff. Relax, be comfortable but stay focused and alert, or you can practice by walking, standing and lying down, although lying down may cause drowsiness. Regardless of the type of practice you choose, what matters most is the quality of the awareness you bring to the practice.
It can be helpful if you can have a space of your own in your home to dedicate to your daily practice, and if you have children, perhaps you can ask them to help you create such a space.
4. Does meditating while doing things like gardening have the same effect as focusing on the effects of the breath?
If you're really talking about gardening while meditating, then you're talking about multi-tasking rather than mindfulness practice. While this may be more efficient, I suspect it's for other purposes, and perhaps you think that gardening with positive thoughts might be a good way to kill two birds with one stone, since you can stop worrying about squeezing in another time to actually sit down and meditate.
Instead, consider setting aside time to sit on a cushion and just focus, and then let your mind open up like a petunia, let your body sink from fidgeting into a daisy-like stillness, let your thoughts about fertilizer weeds and flowers come and go, and then when you're done with this formal meditation practice, step into that sunlit garden and notice the rich black soil and the beautiful fragrance of the flowers, you will be able to truly reap the fruits of your positive thinking practice.
5. If my legs. What if my legs, neck or feet feel numb or even painful?
First, assess the sensation and ask yourself how likely it is that I will need medical help given the current sensory signals. If the sensations are not particularly intense, try to relax with, the physical sensations being experienced before adjusting to comfort, to see what it feels like to release these sensations, they may be like a drawer that is stuffed to the brim. Everything in there is tangled up and disorganized. What ---- tingling sensations are in there? Take the tingling sensation out and set it aside and feel the burn? A pulsation? Pressure? Take all these sensations out and set them aside too, and observe what happens when each of these tiny sensations is set aside in the imagination.
Thoughts, emotions, and other bodily sensations have a vitality of their own, and as we come to understand their shapes, textures, and even characteristics, you might say that these bodily sensations are a gift from meditation, and that, in light of this realization, we might not always be so eager to make things go the way we want them to go. Rather, in the future, we may be more comfortable with things as they are, such as not resisting pain as strongly.
If you are experiencing pain, it's best to adjust to a more comfortable position and start again. It goes without saying that no matter how comfortable the position is, you will probably feel pain or discomfort at some point, and if that discomfort is not very strong, try to see if you can get along with your body's experience and observe the sensation before moving to a comfortable position, and, as mentioned above, allow yourself to stay there for a little while and see what happens, does the sensation change? Has it gotten worse or improved or what else does it feel like? If you have a tingling sensation or tingling in your feet and lose consciousness, it is best to awaken these sensations.
But again, try to be with the physical sensations for a while before moving or waking them up, and for most people you will no longer need to do this as often as you practice.
6. Should I try to stop thinking to empty my brain?
The goal of mindfulness is to "empty the mind", which is the biggest misconception about mindfulness. People who have meditated for a long time know that trying to interrupt thoughts is as difficult as trying to stop a road roller with a feather. You have to accept the fact that your brain is always thinking, and even if you don't realize it, you have to admit that you are not in full conscious control of your thoughts all the time.
One of the great insights of trying to do this is to realize that even if you lack total control over your wandering thoughts, it doesn't necessarily weaken you.
Trying to control every thought encourages you to cling to the ones you like while neglecting to suppress the ones you don't, and this kind of cerebral wrestling match can be very tiring, and the thoughts we pushed away are still straining in the basement to come back to haunt you when the door is pried open.
In meditation we make some gentle efforts to keep the attention on a particular object, such as using the breath as an anchor point, and every time the mind wanders, as soon as you notice it, actively and gently get rid of the thoughts and go back to the breath; there's no need to judge ourselves for the sake of the thoughts, it's all part of the practice. Whenever you notice that you are being held by a thought, let go of it and go back to the breath, and in this way you can improve our ability to concentrate and focus.
By gradually stabilizing yourself in this way, each time you notice the thoughts, then let go and move on, you will know more about how the mind works, and the incessant voice in your head will slowly be tamed.
7. I have a lot of good ideas, why do I let them go?
Because the meditation guide includes "letting go of thoughts". You may be worried about losing some good ideas during meditation, and that's a legitimate concern. One way to deal with the anxiety of being left behind on the high-speed train of genius is to turn to face the fear of losing such great ideas. As always, don't let his storyline develop into a big deal; instead, explore how it really makes you feel. If that idea is really important, then write it down. Or you can vary the rules appropriately and record every thought that comes up during the meditation. If they're really important, don't you think they'll automatically come up later in the day?
8. Should I try to spend as much time as possible meditating each week? Or is it more important to focus on the high quality of the meditation and choose the right time to meditate?
There is no standard answer to this question, and you really need both of the above. Try this tip to find a balance between the two, and if you can learn to practice for a short period of time with high quality, it may inspire you to practice for longer.