INTERVIEW
For personal development specialist Jonathan Lehmann, meditation can help us overcome our anxieties during confinement. Tuesday, on Europe 1, at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff, he explained why only ten minutes of meditation per day can transform our daily life, even our sexuality.
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According to Jonathan Lehmann, confinement creates "stress, fear, anxiety and all kinds of parasitic thoughts that are not useful or even sometimes toxic". This behavior is however human, he explains. We are indeed suffering from our "inability to connect to the present moment because of our compulsive and tyrannical mind" which "produces tens of thousands of thoughts per day".
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"Pay attention to the present moment"
To get rid of it, "ten minutes of meditation", he said, could help us feel good. For Jonathan Lehmann, "meditation is defined as the ability to focus on the present moment".
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It invites to practice meditation on several aspects of our life, such as sex, "seen as a consumer good oriented on the result, on performance and orgasm" for the specialist. On the contrary, according to him, it should be considered "as a sharing, or a mutual path". This would "connect to the person, look them in the eye, connect to their breathing, perhaps even know how to synchronize the breaths to create something other than an episode of masturbation for two", he explains.