Mindfulness

Question 0

What is the purpose of mindfulness?

Answer 0

Meet the mind with openness and care. You observe your thoughts no matter if the are good (relaxing, etc) or bad. Mind produce thoughts, that’s what minds do. The suffering comes when we try to change these thoughts or when we try to change our experience of them. We always create categories of them, and we give them meaning.

Question 1

Is mindfulness similar to yoga vipassana in any way?

Answer 1

Yes both disciplines search to dwell in the present moment

Question 2

What is mindfulness?

Answer 2

Is the quality of dwelling in harmony in the present moment. Mindfulness meditation is practiced without judging your thoughts, and feelings, neither grasping nor pushing them away but rather by being with your thoughts just as they are

Question 3

What are the cornerstone techniques of mindfulness

Answer 3

1. Body scan
2. Yoga
3. Compassion meditation (or metta)
4. Sitting and walking medidation
5. Breath awareness

Question 4

Why in mindfulness difficult some how?

Answer 4

It requires intentional effort and selfdiscipline, the instrucctions however are simple

Question 5

What is MBSR Midfulness-based stress reduction?

Answer 5

Is a securalized buddhist mediation technique that has been used successfully in medical contexts to enhance healing.

Question 6

What is the way of materializing mindfulness in lot’s of religions?

Answer 6

Contemplation, like center praying in Catholicisim, comtemplative islam (sufism) or judaism (Kaballah) or meditation in Buddism or Hinduism

Question 7

What are examples of mindfulness through being present listening a story?

Answer 7

In the cristinanism the parable in the buddhist tradition the zen koan

Question 8

What is the definition of mediation?

Answer 8

State of consciously relaxing your body and calming and focusing your mind

Question 9

Cual es el ejemplo de meditación de observación de un punto central en el catolocismo?

Answer 9

El Altar

Question 10

¿Cuál puede ser un ejemplo de meditación de caminar en la tradición cristiana?

Answer 10

Andar por el laberinto de la catedral de Chartres en Francia.

Question 11

What is the focus of hatha yoga?

Answer 11

Postures that promote harmony of mind, body and spirit

Question 12

What is the pupose of the Raja Yoga?

Answer 12

Still the turbullences of the yogi. Therefore is the closest kind of yoga to mindfulness

Question 13

What is the form of youga using mantras?

Answer 13

Surat Shabd yoga that uses sound and light meditation

Question 14

What is one central idea in yoga, same than in mindfulness?

Answer 14

Duality, conflict between opposing forces and achieving a state of harmony. In yoga the practitioner explore the existence at the same time of good and evil. For them harmony is to see the existence of both concepts and their transmite into one another

Question 15

What is a central idea in mindfulness same than in yoga?

Answer 15

conflict between opposing forces and achieving harmony, that is to say awareness of the present moment and no judgement. In mindfulness we try to end with the habit of evaluating thoughts as positive or negative. Doing that we discover a more serene inner landscape

Question 16

What is TM (transcendental mediation)

Answer 16

Trascending to a relaxed state of higher spiritual consciousness. Normally this is done through the repetition of a mantra

Question 17

Why Buddhism can be also understand as a way of Psychology?

Answer 17

Some people understand that Buddhism is a study of the nature of the mind rather than a theistic tradition. Some of them see Buddhism as a way that points the practitioner in the path to self-awareness and spiritual development. In therapy you discover your own truths and learn how to make changes in their lives

Question 18

What are the four areas that are the foundations of mindfulness?

Answer 18

Awareness of heart and feelings
Awareness of thought and mind
Awareness of body and sense
Awareness of the principles that govern life

Question 19

What is the beginner’s mind concept?

Answer 19

Is the practice of seeing an experience with fresh eyes, as if for the first time. We cultivate beginner’s mind by statying n the present moment without evaluating it or prejudging it, that is to say telling ourselves what it is before we even experience it.

Question 20

what is the meaning of soft in mindfulness?

Answer 20

Non judgamental

Question 21

What is the technique of soft mental notes in mindfulness?

Answer 21

Means labeling with short non judgmental labels our thoughts. This can be “sad”, “feeling bad”, etc. but without getting hunged in our thoughts. In mindfulness making soft notes help us in keeping connected with the moment and not getting lost in the story. This technique can be very powerful in meditation to come back to our object or breathing.

Question 22

What is a good acronym to remember the four steps of mindfulness?

Answer 22

RAIN, recognition, acceptance, investigation and non identification

Question 23

Why multitasking is not good from mindfulness stand point?

Answer 23

Because it generates a fight or fly response

Question 24

What is a similar process to drive defragmentation in the computer but referring to brain?

Answer 24

Is the REM phase where we all organizenour thoughts and reproces them

Question 25

What is the mindfulness term for toggling back and forth between task?

Answer 25

Context switching