In the article “The Art of Being Present” Kate Pickert points out that being mindful is an act that leads us to better responsiveness and perspective to our daily lives, and ultimately to a greater control. She talks about the modern society who is becoming more stressful and controlling. The pressure to be successful as a parent, as a friend, as a wife or husband, as an employee causes stress that contributes to depression, anxieties and alienation. She claims that “our devices allow us to be in many places at once, but at the cost of being unable to fully inhibit the place where we actually want to be” (72). The hectic lives many of us live, leave us little time to focus on ourselves and it makes us unable “to find time to pause and reset”
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Pickert implies that mindfulness is a personal internal experience that enhances our capacity to live here and now and it is a way of self-understanding. Being present opens our lives to new possibilities of well-being. Mindfulness as well improves the body functioning-healing, stress reactivity, immune response and general sense of physical well-being. It is evident that mindfulness has concrete benefits for our emotional, mental and physical health. A lot of scientific studies sustain this point and try to find even more evidences for the fact that “meditation and the mindfulness that results from it can counteract what happens to our minds because of stress, trauma and constant distraction.” Scientific studies are also showing that there are visible benefits to exercising the brain, indicating that brains can change based on experiences. If we examine the idea of mindfulness, we will observe that even different religions of the world utilizes some methods of reflection and praying as a way of mediation, allowing individuals to pause and disconnect from their daily lives. We live in a busy world. We read news on our I-pads while talking to a friend, we pay bills while watching TV, we are listening to the radio while driving, we barley let out an hour pass by without checking our phones or e-mail. Unfortunately, in the rush of accomplishing all the daily tasks and the urge of being in constant touch with the outside world, we forget to connect with the present moment, missing out on how we’re feeling or even want we’re doing. Mindfulness is a skill of consciously focusing our attention on the present moment. Being mindful helps us became more engaged in one activity at a time and allow us to deal with adverse events more easily. In the
Pickert implies that mindfulness is a personal internal experience that enhances our capacity to live here and now and it is a way of self-understanding. Being present opens our lives to new possibilities of well-being. Mindfulness as well improves the body functioning-healing, stress reactivity, immune response and general sense of physical well-being. It is evident that mindfulness has concrete benefits for our emotional, mental and physical health. A lot of scientific studies sustain this point and try to find even more evidences for the fact that “meditation and the mindfulness that results from it can counteract what happens to our minds because of stress, trauma and constant distraction.” Scientific studies are also showing that there are visible benefits to exercising the brain, indicating that brains can change based on experiences. If we examine the idea of mindfulness, we will observe that even different religions of the world utilizes some methods of reflection and praying as a way of mediation, allowing individuals to pause and disconnect from their daily lives. We live in a busy world. We read news on our I-pads while talking to a friend, we pay bills while watching TV, we are listening to the radio while driving, we barley let out an hour pass by without checking our phones or e-mail. Unfortunately, in the rush of accomplishing all the daily tasks and the urge of being in constant touch with the outside world, we forget to connect with the present moment, missing out on how we’re feeling or even want we’re doing. Mindfulness is a skill of consciously focusing our attention on the present moment. Being mindful helps us became more engaged in one activity at a time and allow us to deal with adverse events more easily. In the