Make Mindfulness a Habit

とうとう今年は、Corona Virus (コロナウイルス)で、一年が過ぎ去ろうとしておりますね！

心の動揺、不安 等々...

そこで、今日の英語の習慣化の題材として、Mindfulness (マインドフルネス)の記事から、習慣としてMindfulnessを行えば、心と身体の改善に繋がりますよ！

日本語では、瞑想と言うと大袈裟に考えられ、大そうですが、マインドフルネスと言葉を変えて、今だけを考え、その為に"呼吸"に焦点を当てるだけで、気分がスッキリします。時間は、自分で決めれば良いし、寝る前、起床時、いつでも良いです。

英語と一緒に、習慣化しましょう！

Developing a sustainable meditation practice is hard. So hard, in fact, that when I start working with executives, most tell me that they’ve tried meditating, but only a very few report having a regular practice. This isn’t because they don’t see benefits. Many say things like, “I noticed a clear difference in how my day went when I started it with meditation — I would be more focused and less likely to get sidetracked.” Or, “On days I practice meditation, stresses would more easily flow off me.”

Still, very few of these executive stuck with it, because they struggled to find the time (“I did my meditation for two weeks, then work got really busy and I fell off the bandwagon”) or because after a while they felt their practice “wasn’t working” or that “my mind was just too busy to quiet down.”

A lot has been said about the importance of mindfulness and how to practice it in the workplace, but the advice doesn’t always address how to develop a sustainable practice over time. I’ve identified four actions that can help.