How to practice mindfulness: FOCUS MODEL

In my last blog, The only goal is awareness,  I talked  about choices that we make in our life  decide our future possibility and since the future possibility are not real at present  and past can't  determined  our future . We are becoming rather than being. 

Now I  am going to talk about  mindfulness  that is present centered attention how to become more aware . To practice mindfulness the most basic thing is self-awareness  which I already  talked about in my previous blogs. Now I am going to share some techniques or methods. It's a kind of learning that you have to practice 

Chris Argyris has defined learning as the detection and correction of error. In Single loop learning, errors are corrected without altering the underlying governing values where as in Double loop learning errors are corrected by changing the governing values then take actions.

Mindfulness is all about double loop learning.

We have to change our governing values  that can only happen  when you become aware  about  those values that you want to change. Self-awareness is the key that's why mindfulness shift your focus inside i.e. inward looking approach

"Reshaping the future means Reshaping how we power it"

Challenge is to create nurturing and compassionate relationship with all parts of ourselves, so that no parts is split-off, forgotten, ignored or avoided. That's why I always said " love yourself a little more"

Transformation can happen at any time , the point is not to force anything,  it is pretty fluid. Chaskalson says," The real action is Practice " let's  talk about  "FOCUS MODEL" 

In FOCUS MODEL  F Stands for  Feel   first you you have  feel your  presence  by going inside your body i.e. you have to feel you complete body from head to toes  and  make yourself aware about  all those sensations i.e. heart beat. The purpose is you have to feel yourself 

 You can do it through breathing exercise- focusing on the in and out of the breathe.  Next step is you have to observe your  thoughts?  Your feelings? Pay attention to those sensation, and identify the thinking that goes along with it

Next step is  C- Compassion you have to be warm, gentle and kind  with yourself  and Accept it as it is Instead of judging it or questioning it.

U Stands for understand  which means   becoming non judgemental, non reactive  and understand that it's a psychological process  rather than having any intrinsic meaning or hidden meaning 

Basically  mindfulness means  we can see much more like seeing  similarity in different things and differences in similar things.  Next step is S - simply let go it's  a conscious decision to release all those thoughts, stories, assumptions, judgment  with full acceptance into the stream of  present moment.

" There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"- William Shakespeare