Importance of Conscious Meditation (Mindfulness)

Serena Cuoghi
Title of Professor of Biology

Take small intervals of time during the day, or whenever you feel it necessary, to reduce the flow of thoughts and quieting the mind, allows us to obtain numerous benefits in return: 1) reduction of the levels of stress; 2) decreased mental fatigue; 3) recovery of normal values ​​and actions of neurotransmitters; 4) observation, recognition and control of emotions; and 5) development of increasingly effective and efficient neural connections; among the most transcendental of them at the level of the brain's own functioning, taking those who assume this practice to increasingly higher states of consciousness and well-being.

The capacity that conscious meditation has to allow the deepening of self-awareness by calming the mind, leads to the development of the abilities of perception, even more, of the perception of the origin of our thoughts, finding there the key to be able to access to the regions deeper into our unconscious mind, reaching into the underlying ingrained emotions, and into the subconscious mind, connecting with the mechanisms that can activate reactions that we want to transform for our own personal improvement, leveraging the growth that we must become responsible.

internal connections

The mind is an inexhaustible source of thoughts that flow without ceasing and mostly without an apparent reason or a specific purpose, being generated by the multiplicity of stimuli that we receive permanently, which trigger at a conscious, subconscious and unconscious level, the associations with the triggering factors of that continuous voice inside. This phenomenon, in turn, is linked to the emotions and beliefs rooted in our minds, either as conditioning factors in the way we adopt thoughts, becoming positive or negative, or as their own reinforcement of the mental patterns that gave them origin.

This permanent coming and going of mental chatter can reach the point of becoming an overwhelming situation, generating self-sabotage in the things that we propose perform, increasing at the same time the levels of frustration and stress in the performance of some activity, hence learning conscious meditation techniques that allow us to serve as practical tools to restore the balance of our thoughts, it becomes a valuable resource for maintaining mental health in general.

productive creativity

Due to the progressive development of both inner peace and emotional awareness, the potential for creativity increases, not not only because we find ourselves more serene and therefore better channel our thoughts towards what we want to create, but because of the ability to combine in a broader way the elements that surround us and the information we obtain from them with the imaginative capacity of our brain.

Whether intentional or not, the artist has a strong tendency to instinctively find mindful meditation as a resource to connect with the areas depths of his Being, evoking the always well-referenced inspiration that leads him towards the physical materialization of what at first was only in his mind, ability which of course can be developed to take full advantage of this potential of the mind and increase both creative and productive performance in a given project.

Conflict overcoming

Another not to be missed example of what conscious meditation can do for us, through achieving the correct balance of the emotions and the objective observation of the facts, in a certain situation, is to become more assertive towards making decisions and controlling our own reactions, depending on the solution of the various conflict situations that we may experience, thanks to the possibility of taking the mental time necessary to select the correct words and thus build responses that consider in turn the own emotionality and feelings of the other.

Calm the bombardment of thoughts and especially those that lead us to make such disastrous value judgments, with which we usually sentencing other people opens the way for a true understanding of the reality of the other, one of the most altruistic benefits with which which conscious meditation rewards us and what we can use to also contribute to the construction of increasingly more healthy.

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