A teacher used to say, if you like tea and while you drink it you are doing other things, then you have a big problem with tea time. Your problem more than with tea is with how to taste, not the infusion but life.
One of the drawbacks of the society we live in is the concept of "false productivity." We have been told that we have to go fast, "take advantage of the time, not rest on our laurels", do two, three, even four things at the same time if possible. I use the proverb, source of wisdom through popular sayings to explain the consequence of this: "whoever takes a lot of space, the less he tightens up". Turned into gears of this frenetic pace we wear ourselves out, a lot.
People withdrawn from the essence of life appear in our consultations more and more frequently, who have seen each other phagocytosed of her without conscience.
Who are the culprits? Everyone and nobody. You enter the vital dynamic by imitating, and if you don't, it gives the feeling that you are left behind. Society is constantly changing, with the arrival of the internet and social networks, we have more information than ever, stimuli that change just after two seconds.
Platforms where we exhibit a reality of us masked, showcases of dehumanized humans. It is not about feeling guilty for moving forward with the world, but under my personal and professional experience if we do not want to be swallowed up of life, waking up one day with an existential hangover., it is necessary to learn to be present, beyond the superficial speed with which social fashions drag us.
For this I propose 5 simple exercises derived from meditative strategies that have the power to link back to the true essence of life:
Listen to how your body feels from the balls of your feet to the crown of your head. Sweep with your attention, as if it were a wave, feet, ankles, calves, thighs, pelvis, buttocks, lower back, upper part, belly, ribs, chest, shoulders, arms, forearms, wrists, jaw, nose, eyes, forehead and crown, do the same process in reverse. Finish connecting with your breath, watch it count from 0 to 5 breaths and then from 5 to 0. (It will not take you more than 5 minutes and the impact that this activity has on the brain is powerful).
As if they were clouds that pass through the space of your mind. That realization, without judging, or pretending that they disappear. The exercise only consists of looking at what is there, with full awareness.
What do you feel, open up to them without labeling them as good or bad. Allow yourself to feel the way you feel.
Leave what you are doing in addition to this, and get ready to savor, attend with all your senses to the food, texture, temperature, flavor, sensations.
Concentrate on that person, narrow your attention focus on what he tells you, how he tells you, what his body expresses when he speaks. Listening and attending to the other in a profound way is the best gift we can give someone.
It is no coincidence that each exercise is preceded by the word "Brake". Stopping means allowing to connect in a deep way through attention with what we are living in the here and now.
You can attend to this premise with any activity you do. Give yourself a real presence, it is not sold in any establishment, it has no price, you cannot even find it on google. Everything you seek is within you.
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