Mindfullness - Increase the power of the mind by just living in the moment

Mindfullness in plain English is to be aware of every moment of your life. You may think that you know what you are doing every minute but if you look closer you will identify countless moments that you act completely mindless like a robot. This is routine and occurs when you repeat the same process too often. You think that there is nothing more to know and you start doing it automatically and your mind stops participating actively.

Before I start I would like to clarify that I don't know if it is right to use the expression "mindfullness" for this article, but mindfullness is the closer word that describes what I have to say. I know and you may also know that mindfulness is a term used in meditation and it is a state where you increase your awareness by just observing your thoughts stream but without your active involvement in it. You just observe and you live in the present without thinking about the future or the past. Well this article here has nothing to do with this meditation technique; it is just a way to experience life.

When you follow a procedure too often then you stop thinking of it. You do what you know every time following the same steps and most of the time you think something irrelevant or simply nothing. A classic example is driving. Although this is a physical consequence as you master an activity, it is not always good to let it happen. What I mean is that you won't expand further what you have learned because you have stopped thinking of it.

To the driving example.How many times you realized that there was a better way to reach your destination? This realization happened coincidentally because of external factors. For instance, if there is a roadblock ahead, you will be forced to change your routing. So for a moment you engage your mind to the situation. Now your mind is stimulated and active because it has to figure out the new routing to your destination. This wouldn't happen if you had followed again the same old path. So in this example you became mindful when a roadblock forced you to think a new way to reach your destination.

This situation is very common and many people experience this in everyday living. This happened to me also many times and in most cases I realized that there were far better routes to my destination. So the outcome from this example is that I learned and became better in navigating around the city by simply living in the moment of driving.

How to become mindful?

Well, the standard method is to remind to yourself to be aware of everything you do, even to something you think you know it fully and there can be no further improvement. The reminder may have a verbal format like saying mentally to yourself what exactly you do.

Mindfullness can expand your knowledge. As you become mindful your mind is alert and can identify new ways to improve your technique in whatever you do. If you let routine to overwhelm you, you welcome brain rot. Brain rot is a very disruptive state of the mind and you must avoid it at all costs.

You become mindful when you are thirsty for knowledge and development. These two intentions keep you mindful. Of course you may be interested to develop only specific aspects of your life but becoming mindful at most of the time, it will increase your mind power overall.

I usually remind to myself to become mindful when my mind is idle. This can happen as I don't do anything at all but it can also happen as I do something that I know very well how to accomplish it. In the first case when I am idle I try to focus my attention on the surroundings and then on my inner world. In this scenario "mindfullness" reminds the meditation technique. I observe my sensations, feelings, functions, thoughts, and breathing and become fully aware of the present moment. In general a nice feeling of expanding consciousness comes afterward. Creativity increases and idea production is fast. My greatest realizations have come up from a state like that. I repeat that this is not meditation.

Now in the second case where I am not actually idle but my mind is, I try to be aware of every simple detail of what I am doing that moment. I know it sounds and it is boring some times and that's why my mind cannot be always there. But whenever I live in the moment I get a clearer picture of what I do. I better understand why I do it and most importantly I learn to do it better. When your attention is focused on what you are doing then your mind thinks in a creative manner. You can realize a better way of getting things done when you live mindfully.

Concluding, I would like to say that I acquired two great benefits through mindfullness. When I am idle I expand my consciousness and I get a spiritual lift while when I am occupied I can be enlightened realizing new perspectives and solutions in whatever I perform. If you think of it, this is an increase in the mind power as a whole. At least these two benefits I have realized up to now. You may have realized more.

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