Mindfulness
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is not a set of theories or concepts: it is an experience that comes from practical experience in everyday life. The practice of Mindfulness allows us to realize, to awaken. Given Jon Kabat-Zinn’s definition of ‘the consciousness that appears when we pay deliberate attention, in the present moment, without judging, to the way each experience presents itself moment by moment’.
1. Stop: means stopping the automatic operation mode of the mind and directing attention to the present moment. To observe: it is to contemplate, understand, feel, listen and sense the reality of every moment, the experience of every moment. See things as they are.
2. To realize: it corresponds to the awareness of what happens both internally and externally. See the effect of external events on you, others and the surroundings. Access the experience of the moment in all its fullness.
3. Accepting: recognizing things as they are, accepting reality as it presents itself.
4. Deciding: when one can be living fully, the experience of the present moment, it is possible to make more conscious, rational and less impulsive decisions.
5. Acting: action is a conscious response to what happens and not an automatic reaction.
What is Mindfulness for?
Mindfulness is a practice of integral personal growth and development, using indispensable tools to achieve a fuller and more balanced life. The learning of the practices of Mindfulness and the power of Being and Being in the “here and now”, allow us to experience focused attention, moment by moment. The practice of Mindfulness also allows us to be more aware of the need to learn to learn (beginner’s mind) and to dwell on each of our thoughts, which can be limiting factors or factors that enhance new situations and opportunities.
The practice of Mindfulness allows to enhance a new type of leadership for companies and/or organizations: Mindful Leadership (conscious leadership).
