Welcome to Week 1!
This week is dedicated to the Power of Mindfulness, as a foundation to the training you have just started.
Watch the video below, read the text in which I share my own experience with Mindfulness and repeat the meditations as often as you wish.
Feel free to research and experiment around Mindfulness. Enjoy the Power of the Here and Now!
My experience with Mindfulness
I still remember the first time I meditated! The sensation of rest, real peaceful rest, then after, the sensation of being grounded, fully aware of whatever small action I was taking.
Taking my jacket from the hanger in the changing room of the dojo where I was training then. Putting my jacket on, taking my bag…it was as if I had never done that before, as if I was experiencing life for the first time. Something like 15 years have passed since that day, but the sensation is still present. It truly amazed me.
With time, I practiced different techniques, attended classes and groups, Tibetan Buddhist meditations, Zen, Taoists, Jedi, guided…and some I created too!
I used to meditate in the evening, with my window open and a restaurant right under it, so I learned to use noise-sound as a meditation tool.
I like to meditate in the most challenging places. One of the meditation sessions I currently run takes place precisely in the room of a cafe, but I like to show my students that we can meditate anywhere, at anytime.
Mindfulness is also a very particular kind of meditation. It isn’t really an inner journey where we go far. It is more like a quest for awareness, a desire for self observation.
The challenge is to remain neutral, whether we are joyful and we hear the nice song of a bird in our garden, or whether we are agitated and we hear the constant coming and going of cars at rush hour.
Then, when we go deeper in our observation, we notice the observer, and their behaviour, often very judgmental. At that point, we often smile at ourselves and recognise the need for self compassion. This is an important step.
Then there is the perpetual mindfulness, which is different from focus. We can focus on a task but still be mindful of everything, like our body posture, our movement in typing a text, our way of thinking the word before putting them on the screen, the room temperature, the light and colours around us, the sounds, our breath, the touch of our fingers on the keyboard…so many stimulations! So much in one tiny moment! Like a spark of eternity.
Mindfulness is a useful tool, and I would say that it is life changing.
There are many ways to practice mindfulness, only personal experience can teach you the way you will prefer, and that will evolve with time too.
The meditation I created and posted below is working with the Base Chakra linked with Mindfulness.
Feel free to create your own Mindfulness tools too.
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