{"id":1110,"date":"2018-08-11T19:42:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloomsoup.com\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2022-09-16T11:16:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T11:16:01","slug":"mindful-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloomsoup.com\/mindful-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindful Awareness: The Art of Living in the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Your mind is a puppet master, creating angst and high drama, set to the backdrop of a high-octane script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thoughts attempt to draw you from the present moment repeatedly, through intricate fantasies played out in a fictional future or reliving a distorted, illusory past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emotions are perhaps even more adept at luring you into self-made fantasy. An anxious thought leads to an unhappy feeling, which magnifies your mental time travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such mind wandering is akin to a fast-flowing river, with scenes played out incessantly in small eddies and currents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much like a mirage, these stories are so realistic as to become intoxicating, until you wander trance-like into the water, only to be swept away by your imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No sooner are you immersed in the fiction, living all too realistically the ego-driven narrative of mind, that you lose yourself in the tumult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intermittently you claw your way back to to the river bank, gaze skyward and cough story water from heaving lungs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But after resting temporarily in presence, you leap transfixed into your story once more, to live out your endless Sisyphean saga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cure? Training to observe and appreciate the flow of your mind river without becoming mesmerised by its content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living in the Present<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"mindful<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mindful awareness points towards a simple way of appreciating the present moment. Of standing securely on the river bank of the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It allows us to see the river for what it is; a great, beautiful creation of evolution permitting us to come together in groups, weave enabling stories into imagined realities and cooperate on problems our early ancestors couldn’t begin to fathom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here’s the key. Mindfulness<\/a> permits us to place a consciousness brake on an imagination that frequently runs wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while imagination and expectation have proven useful tools in our dominance of this little planet, our dopamine-like drive to live in a fictitious world has ushered in a technological gold rush…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One that allows psychological escape from the content of the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mindless Consumption to Mindful Living<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With the advent of high definition, ultra-realistic gaming and now virtual reality, it seems we’re ever more determined to live outside ourselves and perhaps more worryingly, embody storylines dictated by self-serving media organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This mindless consumption isn’t just unproductive, but downright dangerous. You’re stuck, breathless in a self-made hyperbaric echo chamber, programmed by algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we strive to outrun reality, perhaps it’s only a matter of time before our discontent drives us past the point of no return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mindful awareness shows us a path back. Back to simplicity, and back to ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your mind is a puppet master, creating angst and high drama, set to the backdrop of a high octane script.<\/p>\n

Thoughts attempt to draw you from the present moment repeatedly, through intricate fantasies played out in a fictional future\u00a0or reliving a distorted, illusory past.<\/p>\n

So, what’s the solution?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nMindful Awareness: The Art of Living in the Present | Bloomsoup<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mindful awareness places a consciousness brake on unproductive overthinking, providing a simple path back to the present moment. 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