Mindful meditation helps you gather and direct your attention, and notice what is going on inside you of thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations without being swept away by them. With regular practice, focused attention becomes a tool for calming stress, understanding yourself, and dealing more consciously with situations and relationships.
Taking care of yourself requires you to employ the energy of attention, gather your energy in order to control it, and redirect it toward your goal. The following matters can be counted as goals you achieve through training in taking care of yourself.
Gathering attention
When you are being creative in your relationships and want to repair a relationship or address your circumstances, prepare your mind with attention through your mental effort, unify the energy of your thinking, take control of that energy as a whole and move it in a single direction. Keep your focus on one direction and notice how you read what you observe. The more consciously you devote your focus, the deeper and more precise your understanding becomes.
Work on gathering your energy
By gathering your energy, you become creative in facing situations. Your mind stirs convictions and a drive to deal with the situation, and you deal with it with confidence in your capabilities and belief in your influence, your persuasion, your motivation and your ability to resolve circumstances. Likewise, your handling of your energy, gathering it and addressing circumstances and what has gone wrong, grows with the energy you put to use.
Being bound to the earlier focus
It is human nature to be bound in behavior, trusting only the first, old reading and not departing from it. Readings of events are many, so to get results, work on moving your awareness toward convictions that differ from yours. If you regulate your feelings and pause emotion and reaction, you can understand the other reading.
Awareness of the two goals
As you know, you act in a certain way in your relationships, and you realize that it does not take you to your goal. If you state your inner goal to yourself, you ask whether your behavior achieves your goal. If, in your own assessment, it does not, then ask what your goal is in what you say, identify the result, and ask whether it is your goal. Moving toward your inner goal may also conflict with your personality and its goal.
Attention to ability
Remember that you have the ability. Your mind does not conceive of anything it is incapable of, so your abilities are not held back when you picture within you something you aspire to. If your imagination does not accept your vision, you will not be able to reach what you imagine. Remember that you are able to attain what you imagine if you pay attention to how you reach your goal in your imagination, and through your attention you strengthen in your personality what you can do to reach your goal.
Note: This content is for awareness and education only, and is not a substitute for diagnosis or treatment by a licensed physician or psychologist. If symptoms are severe or persistent, seek specialized help promptly.
