a lot of people ask me does mindfulness or meditation works or not if yes then how they also explain to me how much they practice it but can’t getting benefit from it if you are also facing problems like that then after reading, this post you will find you answer
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does mindfulness work
so first things you need to understand is that what is mindfulness, this is a huge topic
don’t worry I will clear all your problem in a simple, comprehensive way
let the first talk about mindfulness it is not a meditation those who say it is a meditation I recommend you stop listening to them
because they already don’t know about that then what they tell you
so the question comes if mindfulness is not meditation then what it is
so mindfulness is the state where we fully present at that moment without any judgment or criticizing our whole body and mind is fully present at that moment
so what happens is that we are living in the modern world where we all have a busy life it is hard to find some time for our self
And that’s how frustration comes in our life this is not only the problem there are more than that
but this is more common in today’s world
And when it comes to solving this problem, it seems hard well depression and anxiety are very common in today’s world
When it caught you, you lost your sense of thinking or decision making So is important to solve this problem in its early stage
Now the question comes how to overcome inside your depression There are lots of you can cope with it,
but here we see the most and powerful ways which not only help you to overcome with anxiety or depression but also protect you in the future and that is mindfulness
How mindfulness work
I had already told you that mindfulness means being in the present moment without any distraction,
When you practice mindfulness meditation you start being in the Present Moment, In today’s world, our mind was roaming in the past or future our mind is a thinking machine
which will never stop it’s always thinking, But when you practice mindfulness you forget all your past and future just remain in the present moment that’s how meditation work
Not getting benefit from Mindfulness meditation
The simple answer to the question is that you won’t see a huge benefit from this. You see meditation as it solves all your problems and you don’t have to do anything
Let’s say you are sitting for dinner, in the dining table and your favorite food is put in front of you and you have to eat that but without touching them at all
Are you able to eat that without touching them
When you don’t touch your food or put it in your mouth how can you able to eat that But when you touch your food and ate that, throw your hand or spoon then your hunger will vanish
So in this case, your hand and spoon are like meditation when you don’t try to solve your problem than how it can benefit you
For example
If you are suffering from depression or anxiety and really want to overcome this through meditation
When you practice mindfulness meditation every day
What happened is that it will help you and provide potential to solve your problem
I when you get distressed in life because of any reason
Let’s suppose you have an inferiority complex
So when you see other people, you only see how much they are successful and happy in life and achieving their goals.
and when you see yourself, you only see your failures in life that’s out depression or anxiety came into your life
But when you practice mindfulness it helps to see both sides of life you can see that the person is successful in life because he had done really hard work in life
when you see yourself like I had also achieved many things in life and needs some hard work to achieve more
The only thing mindfulness meditation does is it changes the perspective of seeing the world
Mindfulness meditation helps your brain to see the world clearly as they are it helps our brain to identify which type of emotions or thoughts are good for us by providing a sense of awareness
How quickly mindfulness work
It depends on your goal what you want from meditation It doesn’t mean, how much you practice if you are doing it and skip it for some days and again do it and again skip then it would not work for you
If this is you!
then I recommend you stop wasting your time Meditation provides benefits both who are practicing it for an hour or who are you practice it for 20 minutes But the main thing is that you have to do it regularly the more you do it the better you learn from it
Why mindfulness meditation not seeing the benefit
Let’s understand through an example
There are two-person Neil and sem they both work in sim office both of them are really hardworking
But this month both of them getting more and more pressure due to their workload
Sunil decided to practice mindfulness every day and sem also practice it
Neel practice 30 minutes every day, but only practice meditation once or twice in a week After 2 weeks ago Neel found himself that he can easily manage their emotional pressure,
but some really get discharge because he is practicing forcibly or incorrectly What happened is that when you’ll start practicing mindfulness it starts releasing Mental baggage from the mind, that has Caught him like a prisoner
So in first-week practice mindfulness is brain open all the block and her thoughts and emotion passes through that Neel just noticed him all his emotions or body sensation so he gets success in managing the stress
But this same only practice for only two times in a week and her brain started throwing all her emotion and thought so he gets frustrated in life
Conclusion
Neel had patiently practiced mindfulness every day, but some did not you can think like that if you give to eat the food of holy week at one would you eat, practice is daily observing yourself you will find success in it
How does mindfulness feel like
Personally, it is really hard to explain how it feels when you practice is but for you all try it is my personal experience
I had first started practicing mindfulness when I was 12 years old But in the beginning, I had also done this by skipping time to time it’s really hard for me
at first, sometimes I noticed that my brain never stops thinking and deliberately showing all the thoughts and my bad emotions
I feel like I want to quit it, but after some time I again start practicing mindfulness and decided not to stop practicing
And now I feel like it’s giving me a huge benefit in my life, not from an external source it is from internal
what happens if you practice mindfulness three to four-month or a year
Let’s say you are practicing mindfulness daily for 20 minutes in the first week, it’s really interesting when you start noticing your thoughts
Sometimes they are deliberately coming into your mind or sometimes you feel more relaxed than ever When it has three to four–month, you can see some little bit changes in your life like how your thinking process head change
How can you practice mindfulness
If you really interested in this then it’s easy to learn, but if you are coming only for trying it for one or two weeks, then it seems to be really hard for you to get the benefit Well,
I had already made and complete guide for mindfulness meditation here you can check out that if you really interested in
The benefit of mindfulness meditation
- It improves your self-awareness and decision making
- It improves your life
- It will improve your core creativity
- Decrease depression and increase
- Reduce stress
- Improve your perspective to the world
- It Will increase power
- Improve focus and concentration
- Self-acceptance and acceptance of other
- The ability to release mental baggage
- Ability to identify your needs
- Improve mood