Mindfulness & Meditation: Improve concentration & conscious awareness

Mindfulness helps to improve our concentration and conscious awareness. Awareness can thus become a tool that helps to better cope with the daily work routine. An ex-manager describes his personal path to mindfulness.

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The mindfulness thing at the beginning of my journey was similar to basketball practice when the coach yelled at us to focus.

It's about as helpful as telling a blind person that he should look better when he's stumbling over something. Unfortunately, most instructors of hobby teams do not understand this didactic leap, but we ourselves can deal with this topic differently. The "how" is crucial for me and on the way there I have approached the understanding through these stages:

1. Concentration
2. awareness
3. attentiveness

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By my own way the Transformation and personal development, I have developed a subjective perspective on the relationship between these three terms. They are closely intertwined with each other and with us. Like so many issues affecting our mind or soul, an objective account is mine Opinions hardly possible given the current state of science. Our language is another obstacle to objectifying experience of this kind.

So someone who consciously experiences these terms can only describe them subjectively, because he experiences it from his own inner, subjective point of view. Nevertheless, some experiences are similar to the reports of many individuals, so that certain conclusions are possible. However, I would like to remain subjective, since an objective description can only ever deal with a topic or thing and cannot penetrate into the essence, the subjective, because then it would lose its objectivity per Definition verlieren.

Mindfulness and Meditation: It starts with concentration

At the beginning of my journey was concentration. However, the concentration has become a good one in times of constant dopamine bombardment of "apps and services". If we are to focus on one thing well, we now need a proper preparation, appropriate mood, time, setting and also the saving flight mode on the smartphone. Even if the subject fits, we can do amazing things that sometimes surprise us, when we look at the result and the time that has passed by in flight. In some situations, even the much-vaunted "flow" arises.

This feels great, produces excellent results and satisfies tremendously. Concentrating on this topic, however, does not focus on Excel, PowerPoint or a report, but on our own inner life and on further development of the environment. Unfortunately, this type of concentration is not taught to most of us in Western countries. Neither the parents, nor the school, nor further education teach us how we can focus on ourselves and concentrate on it. The religious institutions do not perceive this mission as well - so at least my experience in the context of mindfulness and awareness.

Guided meditation trains concentration

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Rather, for many, getting started in this subject area by reading later in life. Zen and comparable philosophies usually form the starting point of one's own journey. After reading, only practice helps to make the experience itself. The concentration on ourselves can be learned first through short guided meditations. There are some great apps and YouTube videos that allow us to be with ourselves from the earliest 5 minutes, to about 20 minutes in the advanced stage, and to endure it with ourselves and our thoughts.

Here I began to learn and train the concentration on myself. My mind kept wandering and I was often more on the events of the recent past, or the next Future. Only now did I begin to understand the value of Siddhartha's statement by H. Hesse: "I can wait..." when asked about his abilities. Patience is a very important virtue in this journey. Little by little I trained my concentration, which brought me more and more into the "here and now", so that I could be with myself for the said minutes without doing anything, or shut to plan.

Raise awareness through mindfulness

Through this increasing ability to concentrate on myself, I automatically developed the possibility to perceive myself more consciously. At some point a connection arose in me that the much-vaunted “awareness” was in mine Eyes is the higher level of concentration on myself and can be extended to my environment as the practice progresses. The more I was able to focus on myself and on the moment, the more conscious I became of what was happening inside me.

After that, I was able to direct those skills to what's going on around me. Here, some kind of effort was needed to be able to maintain the concentration and, with it, the awareness for me and then especially for the environment. I often had to "catch" myself and focus on how I am actually inwardly, what I really feel or how I perceive my immediate environment. This gradually increased my awareness of these same things as my own feelings, and later also the interaction with the environment.

Make the unconscious conscious

It felt like an awakening. Much of what I had previously been running on "autopilot" now came into my expanded field of vision - unconscious behaviors and impulses moved into the field of my awareness. I could my perception clear improve and get more out of my 5 senses. Awareness had become a "tool" that I enjoyed using. Concentration as an enabling vehicle receded into the background and became automatic. I was now able to concentrate much better and noticed the beginning, but also the end of the "flow".

At this point, awareness was my new evolutionary stage. I had to keep myself in it to practice to let the concentration flow into the awareness and thus gradually increased this ability. Up to this point, however, I have only been able to direct said awareness in mainly one "direction".

Meditation helps to perceive oneself and others more consciously

Often I had to decidewhether I consciously perceive my inner self and set up the time and opportunity for this, or whether I direct my awareness outwards and use my 5 senses more actively and intensively.

With continuous meditative practice, I came to another "expansion stage". Here it became possible for me slowly not only to consciously perceive myself and the immediate environment, but also at the same time to widen the awareness to a somewhat extended radius. For me personally that was the transition to mindfulness. Mindfulness closes for me a pronounced ability to incorporate the own concentration into the awareness for oneself and also the wider environment. For me, the forces subjectively interlock with each other. The concentration empowered me to higher awareness and the higher awareness brought with it some kind of new peripheral vision and feeling - mindfulness.

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