'MINDFULNESS'. 'Meditating helps us to know what is happening to us and accept ourselves'
The theory is apparently simple.
We are looking for a quiet place
where we can sit comfortable enough to be comfortable but not too comfortable (the plan is not to fall asleep).
So we push all the noises out of our mind to focus on our breathing.
We take a breath counting to six, one;
we release it by repeating the operation
.
And we do it consciously.
The first few times it seems to work.
The air enters through our nose,
swelling our chest and
leaves through our mouth
, 'gathering' our abdomen and closing our ribs.
Suddenly, without realizing it, in the middle of one of our deep inhalations, the shopping list crosses our head: "Milk, if I have to buy milk, eggs and cereals."
As we exhale, the memory of the last mail from the school emerges, warning us that
several cases of pediculosis
have been reported (for the fifth time so far this year)
.
We keep breathing until we remember that this morning we did not call our parents.
Burdened with pending tasks and hyperventilating
, we decided that we better leave the meditation for another time.
With more calm and such ...
That 'I want but I can not' that most mortals face when we try to start in the exciting world of 'mindfulness' is precisely what
Chris Hemsworth
has taken to parody on his Instagram account: @chrishemsworth.
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Pulling on a sense of humor and spectacular biceps, the Australian actor has baptized his new occurrence with the revealing title of:
'Let's not make 2020 even worse than it is'
.
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In these videos, which are one of the best marketing campaigns ever designed to get started in the world of 'mindfulness' through the meditation section of @centrfit (his healthy life application), Hemsworth recreates those (presumably) wonderful moments in which we try to focus on the present in the most idyllic landscapes.
"There is nothing more pacifying than closing your eyes to meditate by the ocean," he says while being swept away by the rising tide.
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"When the distractions do not stop arriving no matter where we go, let's put them aside with care. Gently, of course. They also have feelings," he says in the text that accompanies one of his videos in which one of his children interrupting their practice underwater.
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It is clear that meditating is not as simple as it seems but we can always start by following the advice that Isabel Serrano-Rosa, director and psychologist of EnPositivoSí, gives us in 'Breathing joy' (The Sphere of Books).
It's worth a try, Chris!
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