Meditating 30 minutes a day, the most effective way to take care of your mental health
Mindfulness, an ancient Buddhist practice, is currently one of the best ways to combat anxiety and stress generated by the hectic pace of everyday life, especially in these months when people are trying to recover normality by leaps and bounds. that truncated the pandemic. After that break, "returning to work generates physical and mental difficulties, and
mindfulness
can help overcome them, because it fights
anxiety
, relieves stress and increases
energy
", highlights Wily Gómez, director of the Sun and Moon Yoga and Meditation Center .
According to experts, this discipline consists of
concentrating
at all times on what is being done, thinking only about the
present
and removing from our mind the 'futuribles' that make noise, those of which we are not certain and that we cannot control.
A task that can be applied to practically any area of
daily life
, from work to treating a disease, and although it seems simple, it is not at all: getting it takes time and dedication.
How Mindfulness Helps With Stress
Mindfulness, like everything else, has its technique and is trained.
If we want to achieve results, we must start by "
reducing stress levels
little by little, to regain control of our life," explains Silvia Fuentes, kinesiologist and expert in Coaching and Emotional Intelligence at Sileiahterapias.
The goal is to apply this mindset focused on the present in all everyday situations in life, something that in the long run makes you feel better,
calm and relaxed
.
Manage anxiety with mindfulness
Facing new challenges always generates nerves and
anxiety
.
Practicing mindfulness relieves these symptoms and generates calm because doing so reduces the levels of cortisol, the hormone that is released in situations of anxiety.
We also manage to lower
blood pressure
and take care of our cardiovascular system, in fact, according to the Spanish Heart Foundation, its practice can reduce the risk of
heart attack or stroke by
almost 50%.
What are mindfulness techniques
Mindfulness means mindfulness,
mindfulness
.
And it is not only an exercise, it can be considered a philosophy of life.
It is a technique that combines
relaxation and meditation
exercises
to focus the mind on the here and now, which helps avoid tension.
Everything, learning to control the
breath
.
How to do mindfulness
One of the greatest experts in meditation, Agustín Vidal, instructor of the meditation podcast at the Royal Hideaway Sancti Petri hotel, gives us the three keys to approach this technique:
prioritize
- "deeply, little by little; when we do it we find clarity and tranquility ", he affirms-,
breathe
-" By doing it consciously we fill the body with oxygen and our body is placed in balance, which allows us to be more patient, react better to problems and adopt a proactive attitude to solve them "- and
think
about your objective.
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