The art of stillness is a melody that soothes the soul. In the quietude of your own space, mental clutter dissipates, leaving room for clarity and peace to flourish. Imagine a life where the mind is free from the shackles of ceaseless thought, a life where mental health is not just a goal but a journey of continuous nurturing. To free your mind of endless thoughts - less or more 6 200 thoughts per day - best way is to practice mindful meditation. We can not find calmness somewhere outside of our own temple, we must turn to ourselves and silence the external noise.
Practice of Returning to Yourself: Meditation
Take a deep breath. Exhale. Repeat. If you ever find it challenging to connect with your inner body, try focusing on your breath first. Conscious breathing, a strong form of meditation, will help you gradually reconnect with your body.
During meditation, we practice the power of the present moment. It's the way we silence the mind and the swirling of incessant thoughts, and we just exist in here and now. In the present moment, the past and the future can not exist. Time is a concept invented by Homo sapiens.
As long as the mind occupies all your attention, you are separated from being. It happens to most people all the time, and then they're not in their bodies. You can't stop thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease. Your whole sense of who you are is then based on the activity of the mind. Since it is no longer rooted in being, your identity becomes vulnerable, a mental structure that always has needs, and fear becomes the prevailing emotion. The only thing that really matters to you is what life is missing: awareness of one's own deeper self—an invisible and indestructible reality.
Excerpt from the book The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
Let it Go - All of It
Letting go has nothing to do with letting go of anything that's outside of ourselves. The truth is that letting go is very simple; in fact, it is natural, like a tree shedding leaves in autumn. You can let go of fear, unplanned changes, or challenges because the only thing you really have to face in challenging times is yourself.
Questions for wholeness
Instead of constantly wondering why something always happens to you, learn to ask yourself: "What is it about me that attracts such painful situations?"
Instead of constantly asking yourself why something had to happen in one way or another, learn to ask yourself: "Why is the way I feel always determined by external circumstances?"
Instead of always wondering how to protect yourself in challenging situations, learn to ask yourself: What is it about me that constantly needs to be defended?
Instead of always wondering how to break your mental fog, learn to ask yourself: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"
Instead of constantly wondering how to act tomorrow (or the next minute), learn to ask yourself: "Can there even be sharp mindedness in anxiety or worry?"
Instead of constantly asking yourself why so-and-so works in one way or another, learn to ask yourself: "What is it about me that wants to suffer because of the actions of others?"
Instead of constantly lamenting - Why me? Learn to ask yourself: "Who is it that always feels this way?
Instead of constantly wondering, did you make the right choice, learn to ask yourself: "Can fear ever make the right decision?"
Instead of constantly wondering why so-and-so doesn't see how wrong he is, learn to ask yourself: "Is what I feel for that person right for me? Or for that person?"
Instead of constantly wondering how to get others to approve of your actions, learn to ask yourself: "What do I really want, applause from the crowd or to live my life peacefully?"
Excerpt from the book: The Secret of Letting Go, Guy Finley
IKIGAI: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Amazing book that was written in Tokyo, has two authors that separated thousands of miles. On was living in Tokyo, and the other one in Barcelona. Their paths crossed and this psychology concept was born.
Why do some people know what they want and have passion for life, while others languish in confusion? At some point in our conversation, the mysterious word Ikigai came up. The Japanese concept, which translates roughly as - the happiness of always being busy - is like logotherapy, but it goes a step beyond. It also seems to be one way of explaining the extraordinary longevity of the Japanese, especially on the island of Okinawa, where there are 24.55 people over the age of 100 for every 100,000 inhabitants - far more than the global average.
What is your reason for being? According to Japanese, everyone has an Ikigai - what a French philosopher might call a raison d´etre. Some people have found their Ikigai, while others are still looking, though they carry it within them. According to those born on Okinawa, the island with the most centenarians in the world, our Ikigai is the reason we get up in the morning.
The book teaches us how to live more consciously, calmly, how to leave worries and stress behind. The authors studied the population of Okinawa with an interest in their lifestyle, diet, activities and their own beliefs about life. These excerpts from the book are only a fraction of the knowledge that its authors have translated into the pages.
In the following is the diagram which is illustrated in this book, giving us the visual clarification of Ikigai.
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