Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
Some quotes taken from this video:
We live in an incredibly busy world. The pace of life is often frantic, our mind is always busy, and we're always doing something.
When did you last take any time to do nothing?
Our mind is our most valuable and precious resource which we experience every single moment of our life...and yet we don't take any time off to take good care of it.
The sad fact is that we are so distracted that we no longer present in the world in which we live, we miss out on the things that are most important to us.
There was a research paper that came out of Harvard recently. It said on average our minds are lost in thought almost 47% of the time. At the same time, the mind wandering is also a direct cause of unhappiness. We're not here for that long anyway. But to spend almost half of our life lost in thought and potentially quite unhappy, this kind of seems tragic.
Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind, but actually it's quite different from that. It's more like stepping back and seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going in motions. And it's coming and going without judgments, but with a relaxed focused mind.
Meditation offers the opportunity, the potential to step back and to get a different perspective, to see that things aren't always the way they appear.
We can't change every single little thing in life, but we can change the way we experience it. That's the potential of meditation, of mindfulness...all you need to do is take 10 minutes out a day, to step back to familiarize yourself with the present moment, so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.
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