"Oh, I'm so inconsiderate!" - flashed hands young girls. For the time being it even touches the people around, but then problems begin, and we are faced with the question of how to develop mindfulness, because absent-mindedness does not allow increasing the efficiency of work.
Attention and attentiveness
Psychology considers mindfulness as a property of personality, believing that without it further development of the personality will be impossible. A person who does not know how to focus on an actual subject, can not effectively work on tasks and problems. Therefore, training of mindfulness is mandatory for those who experience a clear lack of this quality.
How to increase mindfulness? It is believed that everything begins with a common habit of paying attention to everything that happens in life. Many experts recommend trying to abandon mechanical actions, showing attention to what and how we do. Gradually such attention to all life processes develops into attentiveness and ability to concentrate at any necessary moment. But this is only one of the ways how to improve your mindfulness. In general, it is possible to develop this quality using different methods.
How to develop attentiveness in an adult?
On the one hand, the fact that adults ask themselves how to train mindfulness is wrong - they should have been taught by parents and caregivers in the kindergarten. And on the other hand, what to do to a man who in his childhood could not instill this ability, and now he really needs it? The answer is obvious - to study ways how to develop mindfulness and not forget to train it.
- Why do we need attentiveness? To feel the fullness of life at a particular moment. And this means that we will need well-developed feelings - touch, smell, taste. Be attentive to small details - do not swallow a cup of coffee with cookies on the move, but try to feel all the tints of taste. Sniff perfume, try to recognize the class of fragrance, feel the "note of the heart", feel the trail of aroma. So do with all sensations, try to take into account with the senses all aspects of current events. During all actions, do not forget to pay attention to your thoughts, analyze what emotions you cause this or that action, what you think about what is happening.
- We often do not live here and now, but relish the past or seek comfort in the future. What kind of mindfulness can you say if you have been thinking all day about what kind of rain was coming when you got your first love confession in your life? Scrolling in my head sweet moments, you do not allow yourself to enjoy this day. Therefore, begin the development of mindfulness with parting with such obsessive thoughts. Expand your consciousness, understand that memories and plans for tomorrow are all very good, but you must have a place for the present. Do not be shy about showing a healthy curiosity about what is going on around you.
- There are so-called "mood people" - staying in an elevated state of mind, they are able to roll mountains, and when it's gray in their hearts, they can not be forced to work under the gun. What care! Therefore, you need to learn how to control your
emotions. Try to be on a good wave all the time, smile - you will like it. - Look at your body, how it works. Look at what happens to you when you are tense and nervous and how you behave in a relaxed state. Analyze how this affects your mindfulness.
- Stop worrying about each and every occasion. What happens to you, you can always change, and violent emotions only interfere with a sober assessment of the situation. Therefore, learn to accept what is happening, then your attention to the problem will be close to perfection.
- Solve puzzles to find objects. This will help you to learn to pay attention to small details, and not just to evaluate the whole picture.