Definitely proven to be true with me 😫

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Ironically, I lived a life that centered on the feelings of others. Instead of expressing my feelings frankly, I thought I had to live a happy life that would require suppressing my feelings to avoid making problems. At the same time, I firmly believed that my inner anxiety or nervousness should not be revealed. I tried to think positively or forced a smile on my face, hiding my unease and pretending not to know. Some feelings discomforted me, which I knew I should not be feeling, yet whenever those feelings arose, I would deny myself and suffer. I thought this was the right way, but reality told me the contrary. I became more vulnerable. I started to use the "Intended mindfulness playlist' and got much better. It really works 🙂

I can really recomment vipassana Meditation from Goenka. You should Google it if you didnt heard about it, its an extremly helping technique that you can learn in 10 day courses that are for free all over the world

I am trying to make it a daily part of my life, too. I have found that sitting in the shower with the water spraying directly on my face causes me to focus on breathing (of course), in addition to being relaxing. And whether you are in the shower or not, I recommend a waterproof Smart Watch (e.g. Pebble 2) because you can set vibrating alarms easily.

I hope you are still meditating, I have been doing it for years, anapanasati, just following my breath and it has changed my life and maybe even saved it, zero stress, zero worry, tackle everything when it happens, live in the moment your in instead of worrying about tomorrow or yesterdays issues etc! the benefits are endless, good luck.

It's been 8 months. How is it going? Are you better off now? Please do share :)

awesome👍

Yes you made a point very nicely 😊

Yes!, exactly.. 😊👏

Great post!

Great. One of the best comments on KZfaq I have read recently. With meditation, just doing it, not worrying about anything, is what matters. That’s not emphasized in most meditation lessons or videos.

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Woah~! 🙊❤ How did you make it a habbit~? 🙊🙊🙊💞

Hi. Do you want to say with this that you feel that mindfulness is taking away the fun in life? I can relate to that!! ;)

Beautiful and wise message

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Did you tried sir???

Oh, I get it. Thanks.

mark carey I don’t lol

Thomas Mak just send them the link

This project took us over 6 months to complete - and it was worth it. Well done to our team on creating this.

Sir, being calm and being at ease is not a human power...its birthri8 of every human being. A very normal thing which we have forgotten

Still, not a super power!

Hey, when I made this video it's meant to refer to abilities which are of course human (as it's us , humans, doing it) but super in a sense that they are not common. It's just a term widely used, enjoy the info and don't get caught up in the irrelevant stuff. I think being able to consciously control your body temperature with the power of the mind is pretty rare and only super (dedicated) humans can achieve this. Check out Win Hoff he is a good example of the power we all have inside.

I assumed it was a joke.

Annie Lapik 💖 THANK YOU!!

The Calm app is a good place to start.

Yes. Look for the book "The Mindful Way Through Depression"

Depends on what you call a fort. I'm pretty sure i dont have that many forts each day

Good question. The video maker hasn’t responded with a citation for the study 2 years after your question. Diminishes the credibility of this presentation. Surely we are not thinking 98% of yesterday’s thoughts every day. Like you politely said, a “little” incredible!

@Tazwar Rahman Chowdhury - I'm schizophrenic can meditation help

Well i brush for 12 minutes

I don't know... Not sure if I 'believe' in this whole meditation/mindfulness ... Maybe I am too mindfull for mindfulness. haha

@@user-zt6mb7nf3i I don't 'believe' in Mindfulness either. I practice it. It's not a religion. I rejected Mindfulness meditation for years until I learned that you didn't have to be a Buddhist or even religious to do it. What's even better is that it's empowering. If you ever decide to try it, seek out someone online who is not a Buddhist or someone in person. You don't need dogma or rituals to shame you into being mindfully aware.

@@yusefendure Yes. I believe in being present (in the day) and in what you do. But i am not sure if 'mindfulness' is doing that really. Or that you have to 'practice it by sitting still (Or not) and 'dóing that'... Maybe it is jus better to do the things you like and to ignore the things you can not contrll. That is also a good/difficult practice. ;)

@@user-zt6mb7nf3i Being present in what you do IS mindfulness. Whether lying down, sitting, standing, or walking, mindful awareness can be practiced. In fact, mindfulness (which is Mindfulness Meditation) can be practiced anywhere at any time. What if 'the things you like' are harmful to others...or yourself? Should one ignore things like rape, torture, racism, sexism? Is it true that people can't control those types of issues? Is it better to focus on your personal likes against confronting 'things you can not control' or is it better to see the world as it is? I would try it before rushing to judgment. I wish you well.

@@yusefendure I think when life goes well for you and you are at peace with yourself and feel good, maybe this includes moments of being 'mindfull'. But I don't ,maybe, believe in the doing of mindfulness. When there are a lot of things in your mind that you did not disolve or find very difficult to life with, you can try 'doing 'mindfulness' all day. But it is just not making a real diffrence for those egotraps that you are in. That is my experience. After you stop doing the mindfulness your own ego takes over again. So the work also needs to be done there! (That includes people who abuse etc.) Mindfully and happy aware in life comes when things goes well. or when I am not in pain etc. But when you are really having problems mindfulness is just a little break ( time spend) and after that there is not soo much changed. That is my experience after a lot of experience in those things. So to say mindfulness is nice when things are okay. But when reall shit is happening in your mind it is not changing thát. I feel that at this stage in my life.

In Pantajali Yoga Sutras (the oldest text we have about yoga and meditation), DHARANA comes before meditation (which is a state) can happen. The direct translation is Focused concentration. This is a stage you need to master before meditation (which is not something you can do, but something you experience) can happen. In the west, we use the word meditation without this type of discernment, but in fact what most people practice is DHARANA (focused concentration).

Hey. I completely agree that being aware is extremely important for meditation, as awareness means being in the present moment (here and now). For example, rather than allowing your mind to be on autopilot, instead you are consciously paying attention to why is happening in your body and mind. It is also true that not all meditation has its goal as concentration directly. For example, in Mahayana Buddhism, Analytical meditation uses the one pointed concentration developed from Shamuta (calm abiding/mindfulness meditation) to directly explore the mind by pondering on the concept/theme of the meditation. However, in this video I discuss mindfulness meditation as it is commonly referred to in the west - mindfulness of breath. The focus of meditation is the breath, you are instructed to concentrate on where you feel the breath (nostril entrance in more advanced stages). There are two points to this meditation from a western perspective: 1. Learn to observe thoughts and feelings without attachement (awareness) 2. Develop a one pointed concentration, which allows you to eventually feel the most subtle sensations of the breath on the outside of the nostrils as performed in the Vipassana meditation retreat. This eventually allows you to develop a deep awareness of your feelings, sensations and thoughts processes while remaining Equanimous. Both in Buddhist and Hindu traditition mindfulness of breath is mainly used a tool to develop one pointed concentration. In Buddhist, as mentioned earlier, this one pointed concentration is then used to explore the mind analytically. To explore concepts like death, attachment, suffering, compassion etc. In Hinduism, it is used in order to access higher states of consciousnesses and finally the state of Samadhi (similarl to the concept of Norvana or liberation in Buddhism). In one of the oldest yoga texts, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Meditation is described not as a process, but as a point when your attention becomes concentrated on one point for over 3 minutes, this is called Dyana or meditation. Anything under is called Dharana or concentration. Over 30 minutes of uninterrupted one pointed concentration is called Samadhi. So according to the ancient wisdom, one pointed concentration (focused and uninterrupted) is actually one of the main goals of mindfulness of breath meditation (which is a technique and a western term for the most common form practiced) in order to achieve a meditative state (a state in which you have control over your mind for extended periods of time and in which you can direct your attention consciously). Similarly, mantra meditation or sound meditation requites a focused attention to concertante uninterruptedly on the object of meditation. So concentration is an intergral part of the meditations as discussed above and in the video. This is also why the brain regions responsible for concentration and attention develop new neural connection. People experience better focus in the day to day life as a result. Perhaps you have a different understanding of what meditation is as it has become a widely used term, often referring to different things to what it is originally referred to. However, both the concept of meditation as presented in the ancient texts and the one mentioned in this video certainly requires and trains concentration. If you are interested to learn more, please have a look at Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali or texts on Mahayana Buddhism and meditation. I hope this clears things up for you :)

Annie Lapik i have already gone through patanjali's yoga darshana and i don't find it necessary to read hatha yoga pradipika. But you seem pretty sure about awareness and concentration, I agree what ur saying about concentration but understand u can be concentrated forcefully but then ur mind would run, or u could be concentrated by just being aware, I'm just saying that concentration comes by its own when ur aware. I simply see some lack of experience, and by the way whoever u follow either Buddhism or Hinduism or any1 the very essence is the same. I would say meditation happens when u r not, when u r trying to do nothing, and it happens, its an accident not something u would try and try. And this same accident happened with gautam Buddha the night before he became enlightened, when he left everything each of his sadhanas, but yes sadhanas worked too! Knowledge is not much useful without experience.

Some meditation practices are very natural and lax while others are concentrative and tougher

The speaker did not mention meditation is concentration. Rather 'concentrate on breathing'. That indeed is the essence of meditation.

@@adityaojha5776 Yet, DHARANA (which is focused concentration) is what you do until meditation can happen ;)

In Pantajali Yoga Sutras (the oldest text we have about yoga and meditation), DHARANA comes before meditation (which is a state) can happen. The direct translation is Focused concentration. This is a stage you need to master before meditation (which is not something you can do, but something you experience) can happen. In the west, we use the word meditation without this type of discernment, but in fact what most people practice is DHARANA (focused concentration).

Hi. Interesting. I feel the same. Now because of chronic pain some people recommend mindfulness. But I have done meditation a lot of years and it made me less in contact with my true self, i think... like disconnected in a way. I was too much feeling and thinking in myself and too aware to be pleasent.. I am not sure whát it was but not sure if it is nice or good for me. How do you feel it does not work for you?

@@user-zt6mb7nf3i It makes me anxious. It's selfish; I'd rather help people. It's boring. It lies

@@count7340 Ok, interesting. Well I would say don't do it then. You have tried it and I have heard it doesn't work for anybody.. But I can unsterstand it is difficult to let go of it when people around you say it is a good thing. Thanks

@@user-zt6mb7nf3i I'm forced to do it. It's company policy.

You are right. Most people don’t know the difference.

It's true, mindfulness doesn't come from the mind!

Hi Darshana, yes I think at the time I had made this I have only been practicing for 1.5 years. It's a practice. However, I also found that as the result of it I am less critical and judgemental towards others, especially when the intention is pure ;) This video was made as a project to spread awareness around the benefits of mindfulness from the perspective of psychology and neuroscience. :)

Hi. Can you explain why?

@@user-zt6mb7nf3i I don't need it, yet I'm forced to do it at work. It doesn't achieve anything. It's selfish. It can promote infantilism. It's promoted by people who have no training in psychology. It gives me anxiety. People abuse it for profit. It's cherry-picked Buddhism. It makes claims it cannot substantiate. It takes credit where it's not due. It uses metaphor/simile to make comparisons - I am not a tree, mountain, or flower! People who practice it don't actually follow their own rules of being non-judgmental when I raise valid points about its inefficacy. Mindful eating is plain stupid. It doesn't help people actually solve the problem that may be giving them stress. Practitioners never accept that it's not for everyone. It's full of pointless ipse dixit statements. I had mindfulness training. I went into it with an open mind. I did a not small amount of research, so I'm not just being stubborn and saying that I'm not going to try it; I did try it. It's not for me, but I get forced to do it at work.

@@Chebab-Chebab Ah thank you. I can relate a bit to what you say. And I am also a little doubting if I am going to start again. I have a therapist who recommends it, to follow by her college. (She is not practising herself) but she recommended it and she is a therapist. But anyway I alspo tried it in the passed and feels not good in more ways... But are you still doing it because you 'must'..?

@@user-zt6mb7nf3i It does work for some people. How much it works for those people, and (as I suspect) how much of it is a placebo will vary from person to person. It's like those 3D seeing-eye pictures popular in the 90s. I don't doubt that people saw something (or thought they saw something). I didn't. It didn't matter that I didn't see anything because it wasn't important. Neither is mindfulness. But the way mindfulness is ever-pervasive would be like forcing me to look at a 3D picture and get me to admit I see something.

@@Chebab-Chebab Okay.. Yes I am also not amused. Today the first session of a 8 day mindfulness class started. And after 30 minutes, were we also ate very mindfull a raisin... and looked before that very mindfull to the raisin, (I felt before putting it in my mouth a big aversion towards it (all).) haha. I left after 30 minutes and will (first) try other ways to deal with certain things. :) Good luck to you.

The hand gesture that you refer to is called a mudra. There are hundreds of mudra hand positions that have been used throughout time. There are many hand positions that when held while focusing on the breath enhance the meditative state. The Gyan Mudra is used to connect with knowledge. In no way are mudras associated with the devil or malevolent energies. Also, I would add that real monks do use mudras and fully learn the meaning that each hand position enhances in meditation. Praying hands in front of the heart is a mudra as well. Fingers pointing up to the heavens and connecting our hearts. Though spiritual in nature, the use of mudras in meditative practice is not specifically religious. Meditation and mindfulness is a focused attention, attention, and attitude. Of course, no hand gestures need be used while meditating if one chooses not to. I have found that using mudras keep me alert and active in the process of meditating. I can focus on my breath, and also go back to feeling the pressure of my fingers touching to bring me back from distracting thoughts.