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            <title><![CDATA[Admiration and amazement]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2025 12:18:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I once heard a testimony from the father of a little boy who was about a year old when they were together at the beach. According to the father, the first time the boy stepped on the sand, he saw the sea and felt the waves on his feet. The father realized what had happened to the little boy: he was amazed to see a beach. Observing his son closely, he saw that he was happy with the waves touching his legs. Later, sitting on the sand, he decided to play and feel the grains and texture of the sand with his hands. And suddenly, the little boy put his hands with some of the sand in them to his mouth, intending to try to know what it tasted like, but the father stopped him.</p><p>The father’s description was followed by the emotion of seeing the unique experience of the first time his son went to the beach.</p><p>Yes, this is an example of mindfulness, of living in the present moment. Admiration and amazement at the simple things help us to give meaning to ourselves. Participating in the show of life and engaging with the world as if for the first time makes us happy.</p><p>This example serves to “deconstruct and demolish all our usual conceptual frameworks, our rigid ideas, our reference points at a very fundamental level in how we see the world, how we hear, how we touch, how we smell, how we taste, how we react emotionally to ourselves and to others.”</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=098532ec52c0" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><p><a href="https://medium.com/hi-mind/admiration-and-amazement-098532ec52c0">Admiration and amazement</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/hi-mind">Hi Mind</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[The simple thing that surprises]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mario Cezar Freitas]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2023 12:38:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I changed after I adopted mindfulness practices. So say the closest friends and family. With the good experiences I’ve had, I thought I should share them with others. There were changes in the way of being and having.</p><p>What happened, mainly, was to prioritize attention. All without paying, free. I dispensed the anxiolytics and discovered many things that were in front of me and simply ignored. Here are some examples.</p><p>Where I live there is a remnant of Atlantic Forest and right in front of the balcony there is a tree of I don’t know what gender. Every morning, after opening the balcony, I look at the tree and admire its size, leaves, branches, stem, root and flowers, etc. I fixed the habit of the morning meeting with her. It seems that time will stop while I admire her.</p><p>The problem is that my watch is faster than hers. With patience, I waited for the time of flowering and behold, I was presented with an admirable beauty. Well, the effort to pay attention to her was reciprocated with her beauty and a sign that life pulsates right in front of me. We made friends.</p><p>Another similar discovery was walking on the beach, I like the contact with the sand, with the movement of the waves, the fresh air I breathe, the encounter of the sea with the sky, the only straight line I admire — the horizon. In one of these wanderings, I stopped at some stones where there were small puddles. The choice of location was unconscious and caused by fatigue.</p><p>I chose to admire what was in a puddle. I saw some fish, snails and plants surrounded by stones and sand in the background. For a few moments nothing happened. The little fish disappeared in the lairs and the snails in their spiral shells. I deduced that it was my presence, the sounds of my arrival. After a few minutes in mindfulness, the actors appeared. Swimming fish and snails walking.</p><p>The interesting thing was to observe the effort of the snail to reach a little plant that seemed appetizing and was in a higher place. But he wasn’t alone. I was also surprised that there would be a fight for survival. One of them gave up. I watched the spectacle of life where I thought that the solid of the stones had nothing interesting. Our arrogance in thinking that we own the planet leads us to ignore the living beings that abound in the environment and are part of the ecology we need so much.</p><p>Happiness lives in the present</p><p>The attention we decline in favor of the automatism of our actions is responsible for our happiness.</p><p>Living in the present is simply directing our attention to perceive with our senses and give meaning to what surrounds us, whether objects or living beings.</p><p>It’s the simple thing that surprises.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=a318a79fcc83" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><p><a href="https://medium.com/hi-mind/the-simple-thing-that-surprises-a318a79fcc83">The simple thing that surprises</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/hi-mind">Hi Mind</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mindfulness: dificuldades do hábito]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:25:48 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mindfulness: dificuldades do hábito</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*ghVlgKN5rAmthT3bFk_1aA.png" /></figure><p>Tenho orientado pessoas a praticarem mindfulness, uma terapia da atenção plena. Trata-se de um modo de ser com base na atividade consciente em tudo que fazemos e agimos. Ao acordar pela manhã, observamos com atenção quando fazemos nossa higiene e como saboreamos os alimentos. E assim também no decorrer do dia sempre ficamos atentos ao agirmos sem o automatismo. Ao relacionarmos com uma outra pessoa, prestamos atenção ao que diz, escutamos e entendemos perfeitamente o que falou. Ficamos atento ás nossas emoções e como ocorrem os sentimentos em nosso corpo e na nossa mente. A prática regular da meditação ajuda a focar nossa atenção, reduzir a ansiedade e manter o equilíbrio.</p><p>A prática correta do mindfulness é aprendida no decorrer de oito encontros semanais e com a orientação de um facilitador credenciado a orientar os exercicios.</p><p>Depois das oito semanas de aprendizagem cada um segue sua vida com as práticas diárias. Passado um tempo tenho reencontrado com as pessoas que fizeram o treinamento e questiono como está a prática do mindfulness. As respostas mais comuns estão relacionadas com a “falta de tempo” e irregularidade em meditar. Como enfrentar essa dificuldade?</p><p>Antes de buscar solução para essa dificuldade devemos lembrar da motivação em praticar mindfulness e as atitudes adotadas em cada exercício. Normalmente, as motivações são as referências para perseguirmos obter recompensas como: ficar calmo e controlar a ansiedade ou viajar de avião sem medo de morrer etc. As atitudes recomendadas para as práticas podem ser: mente aberta a novas experiências, equanimidade, curiosidade, não julgar etc. Estes dois requisitos ajudam a formar o hábito.</p><p>O processo de formação de hábito começa com uma escolha que fizemos e em seguida paramos de pensar sobre a escolha porque continuamos a fazer todos os dias. Para que seja estabelecida a rotina tem que ter a recompensa que é o presente que a mente recebe, por exemplo: o estado de calma e paz interior ou menos ansiedade. O reforço ao processo acontece quando surge um fato ou circunstância que lembra da escolha que fizemos -meditar diariamente e temos consciência de nossa motivação para a prática da meditação.</p><p>Há alguns hábitos que desencadeiam outras recompensas que ocorrem em paralelo á prática diária da meditação como: alimentar-se melhor, relacionar-se de forma mais agradável com as pessoas, evitar conflitos, ser paciente etc.</p><p>Do mesmo jeito, precisamos de repetição do exercício físico para que ocorra o condicionamento desejado. Quem quer ter um corpo malhado, bem torneado com o músculos fortes tem que fazer diariamente e por muito tempo exercícios físicos.</p><p>O nosso cerébro também pode ser modificado para reforçar áreas funcionais como atenção, memória, flexibilidade, velocidade de percepção etc. Para isso, é necessário o hábito que exercita estas áreas funcionais.</p><p>A força impulsionadora do hábito é a vontade. A determinação de praticar resulta da força de vontade que desejamos para nós mesmos. Não devemos ser vencidos pelos acontecimentos que surgem e dificultam executar os hábitos. A prática informal da atenção plena consolida o hábito de meditar diariamente. São atos simples como: alimentar-se com atenção, andar observando os movimentos dos nossos pés e mãos, tomar banho observando a água correr sobre o corpo etc.</p><p>Uma sugestão que funciona para fixar o hábito é agendar no celular o horário das meditação.</p><p>Encontre a alternativa que seja a melhor para você e verá que meditar só traz boas recompensas.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=211bd23a30aa" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><p><a href="https://medium.com/hi-mind/mindfulness-dificuldades-do-h%C3%A1bito-211bd23a30aa">Mindfulness: dificuldades do hábito</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/hi-mind">Hi Mind</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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