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Mindfulness exercises have become a routine part of my life. They have improved my self awareness and helped me to recognize the competing and conflicting forces within my mind. I believe that these routines enable RI, the highest intelligence within your mind to realize its independent existence, separate from troubling lower level systems. Freed from emotional interference, your RI can act to improve the quality of your life by bringing common sense to your decisions and excellence to the things you do.
Mindfulness exercises take control of the mind through methodical observation.
The exercise enables your common sense to take charge of your mind.
Your common sense is your highest prefrontal intelligence, which competes with its mammalian and reptilian counterparts.
The attention of your common sense stills the activities of the lower level animal intelligences.
Mindfulness enables a durable and ongoing control of your mind by common sense, in its ceaseless competition with lower intelligences.
“Living In The Moment” can be made practical, enabling you to focus on your current activity.
Practical steps for Mindfulness Exercises and Mindfulness Living.
Mindfulness Exercises - One Of Two Types Of Meditation
For over 5000 years, the benefits of meditation have been heralded by many world religions. Meditation has enabled people to achieve a higher state of consciousness, greater focus, creativity, self-awareness and a more relaxed and peaceful frame of mind. There are two main modes of meditation. The first, pure meditation, focuses the mind on a single word or object, stilling thoughts within a subconscious process and has been proved to have significant medical benefits. The second, the mindfulness method of meditation, takes control of the mind through methodical observation.

Mindfulness Exercises - Enable Common Sense To Take Charge
Mindfulness exercises enable the principal intelligence within your mind to take charge of your life. Over the years I discovered that my evaluation of problems became more and more rational. Like a computer statement, which is neither angry, nor sad, but just a list of facts. This experience was in keeping with the Buddhist description of the outcome of mindfulness meditation: “You will not see something is good or bad, whether it is a beautiful picture or a very ugly picture, a sweet sound or an ugly sound. When you act like this, your mind will stay calm.” But, my objective was really not to see the world from a cold, rational perspective. As the primitive attacks of fear, resentment or anger reduced, I found that joy and wonder became my normal pattern recognition responses to the beauty around me.

Mindfulness Exercises - The Background Of Your Turmoil
Your triune brain is an assembly of increasingly advanced intelligences, assembled over time by evolution. An early reptilian network caused the system to consume, or reject food, based on an evaluation of smells. Later, nature added event recognition systems. The possibility of disagreeable events triggered fearful, or angry responses. A subsequent mammalian brain triggered social emotions like jealousy, or guilt adding even more decision options. Your brain evaluates myriad such options in making its decisions. The clamor of these lower animal brains normally tend to capture control and trouble your mind. Such responses have become irrelevant in the modern world. The responses of an animal to a tiger in the vicinity are unsuitable for meeting a career threat. We don't need to respond this way. Luckily, we have the option to utilize RI, the recent human level intelligence in the prefrontal regions. It is an immensely wise and rational evaluation system. I found that mindfulness exercises are simple routines, which enabled RI to take increasing charge of my life.

Mindfulness Exercises - Attention Is The Key To RI Control
Attention is primarily an activity of RI, the prefrontal region. Focused attention stills unrelated neural activity. When your attention focuses on your toe, the touch sensory neurons in your toe will fire more rapidly and still the neighboring neurons. Increased firing makes you aware of the pressure of your shoe on your toe. Maunsell reported that, in tests on monkeys, focused attention causes the related neural signals to respond more strongly, while signals from neighboring neurons become attenuated. The mindfulnesses exercises systematically focus RI attention to still the irrational messages from lower level intelligences. The results are amazing. RI, your precious common sense, discovers its unique independence from its lower levels. You are freed from the pain of troubling emotional interpretations of your world. The Buddhists suggest that you can observe your problems like a “watching a bird in the sky.”

Mindfulness Exercises - Retain RI Control To Perfect Your Life
Paul Eckman, the famous emotions scientist said, "We become aware a quarter, or half second after the emotion begins. I do not choose to have an emotion, to become afraid, or to become angry. I am suddenly angry. I can usually figure out later what someone did that caused the emotion." Fear, guilt, anger or shame takes possession and trouble the human mind virtually every living moment. Mindfulness exercises seek to free you completely from control by these subconscious events. Each individual is, usually, the habitual victim of only a few of these emotions. I found that these exercises can quiet such feelings fairly quickly. Continued mindfulness exercises enable the quiet common sense control to bring focused excellence to everything they do.

Mindfulness Exercises - True “Living In The Moment” Absurd
I know a person, who can multi-task - talk on the phone, while watching pans on three burners. But, the average person can only focus attention on a single thing. When you becomes aware of the pressure on your toes, you cannot also pay attention to the breeze on your shoulder. Teachings on “Living In The Moment” appear to suggest an ability to become aware of the whole universe around you. You cannot possibly focus your attention on everything around you in the same moment. While fully “living in the now” sounds absurd, focusing on a single activity is practical.

Mindfulness Exercises - Focus On Your Current Action
My experience with time study of production lines helped me to understand the concept. There, you take a single operation like the assembly of an electric toaster and analyze it down to its tiniest detail. The process can shave off minutes from the process. Clearly define an event and study it. Focus on “sitting down,” or “brushing your teeth.” Try and do it with the least strain on your muscles, in smooth easy movements. When you focus your attention on what you are doing, your whole body absorbs the process and keeps inventing new ways of improving your performance. The powerful advantage is that your RI emains fully in charge and prevents stray emotions from capturing control of your mind.

Mindfulness Exercises
The following exercises increase your self awareness and enable your RI to take increasing charge of your mind:

Become aware of your sensory perceptions. Sit, or lie quietly and listen to the sounds around you, the feeling of the breeze and the faint aromas in the air.
Become aware of your bodily messages. Lie down and become aware of any tension in your muscles. Close your eyes and recognize how your body informs you of the position of your limbs on the bed. Become aware of how you breathe in an out.
Observe your thoughts. The objective is to differentiate yourself from messages from lower level intelligences. You will be able to identify distinctly independent “voices.” Experienced practitioners “let go” of a thought. The secret is not to become emotionally involved. Emotional involvement carries you into the problem. “Letting go” is mere acknowledgement of the problem. Not “Oh, God! What will I do?” But, “Houston, we have a problem.”
Recognize your emotions. “What do I feel now?” After you have built up experience in observing your thoughts, you will begin to see the difference between neutral observation and emotional involvement. Involvement carries you along with the thought, in a mental effort to solve a problem. The frustration of such problem solving efforts will intensify the emotion and entrap you in repeating cycles. Success comes in being able to say “I feel despair.” Identification of the emotion separates RI from the problem.
Recognize the physical symptoms of your emotions. Emotions drive you to achieve specific objectives. In the process, they prepare your body for the fight, or flight responses - increased heart rate, sweating, tension in muscles, knots in your stomach. These changes intensify the emotion and suck you into a negative level of consciousness. With a little practice, you can learn to recognize these symptoms.

Eugene Gendlin discovered the beneficial effects of recognizing this “Felt sense.” When you recognize the symptom as being independent of the emotion, the emotion will “switch off.” You will end up with a surprisingly peaceful state of mind - your RI level of consciousness. Subsequently, it will become easier for you to recognize the next outburst of the same emotion. Gradually, this troubling emotion will be firmly stilled for you. Most people are troubled by only a few habitual patterns of negative emotions. Recognition of their symptoms will slowly transport you into a permanent RI level of consciousness, where simple common sense rules your mind.
Recognize the RI level of consciousness. You will almost “miss” the attacks of guilt and shame, or dread and despair, which occupied much of your life. Become aware that this is the true natural state of your mind. It is a condition, which is free of tension and pressure, contemplating the world with a simple stillness. It will take time for you to become convinced that this is a fundamentally stable state of your mind. Acknowledgement and affirmation of this state will change the quality of your life. Now is the time to extend mindfulness into every part of your life.

Mindfulness Living
The average person spends his time in one of six focus areas - sleep, human interaction, daily routines, meditation, problem solving and entertainment/satisfying curiosity. You sleep, interact with family, friends and colleagues, brush your teeth and eat your food, solve problems in the office, watch movies and read books. During all these activities, even if your mind is free of the “existential chatter” of negative emotions, many thoughts will still wander in. Memories from the past, problems of the world and hopes for the future will distract you from your focus areas. Mindfulness exercises can free you from this distraction, help you to powerfully concentrate on “the now” and improve the quality of your life:

Sleep. Before you go to sleep, instead of allowing your mind to wander over the day’s concerns, direct your attention to your breathing. Still your mind well ahead of your sleep time, have enough exercise to feel tired enough and drop quickly into sleep.
In your interactions with people, focus and act with love and compassion. Free from negative emotions, your relations with people will improve dramatically.
Become mindful and focus, when you brush your teeth, have breakfast and commute to work. During meals, don't just bite off and swallow chunks of food. Chew each mouthful. Chewing mixes the food particles with saliva and transports them to the 10,000 taste buds located around the edges of your tongue and the roof of your mouth. As you chew, the molecules will waft the aroma up into your nose. Experience and differentiate the infinite variations of the basic tastes - sweet, salty, sour, savory and bitter. For every activity, your attention will improve skills, still your turmoil and add value to each living moment.
Focus on each aspect of your work in office. Mentally defining your next task will enable focus. Pay attention to the job and to your customer. Your attention will reward you immensely with improved performance and satisfaction. Doing whatever you do the best way it can be done is the essential road to happiness.
Even while you remain fully focused on your daily life, there will be moments of forced waiting - at a traffic light, for a phone call, or for the arrival of a guest. Use those moments! Relax your body and still your thoughts. Enjoy those periods of quiet contemplation. You will find that you are more calm and composed with such mindful interludes.
When you have freed your mind from domination by emotions and focus intensely on mindfulness living, your mind will be free to enjoy the movies you watch and the books you read.

Mindfulness Exercises Bring You Joy
The objective of mindfulness exercises is to live life fully, without being distracted by guilt from the past, anger about the present, or fears of the future. Those exercises make you pay attention to your mind, identify and subdue the negative foibles of your mind. These were contributed by your troubling experiences, or inherited from an animal past. They can happily be left behind. As the best contribution of this process, you will recognize the feelings of joy which literally fire in your brain, when you watch a sunset, or do your work well. The ultimate joy of mindfulness exercises was uncovered by wise men from a distant past. Civilization owes them a deep debt of gratitude.

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Effective Mind Control

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A Self Improvement Plan
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Developing Self awareness
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Eugene Gendlin Focusing
About Eugene Gendlin's steps to achieve self awareness.
Who Am I?
The great sage Ramana Maharshi advised his pupil to ask this question.
How To Relax At Work
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Breathing Exercises
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Visceral Reaction
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Mindfulness Exercises
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Coping With Stress
How to "Accept the things you cannot change."
About Will Power
Will power has nothing to do with a free will.
The Startle Response
On dealing with unwanted surprises in life.

Your Hidden Emotions

Your Hidden Emotions
How to uncover and regulate your hidden emotions.
When Life Has No Meaning
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Overcoming Shyness
It is all about being comfortable with people.
Developing Intuition
Enrich your life by gaining timely and helpful insights.
A Cure For Boredom
Permanently cure the boredom malady.
The EFT Way To Be Happy
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I Am So Sad
Not a mild, momentary unhappiness, but afeeling of intense grief.
Make Life Meaningful
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What Causes Fear
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Dealing With Severe Guilt
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Controlling Anger
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On Swallowing Your Pride
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The Power Of Gratitude
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Social Comparison
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Overcoming Low Self Esteem
Learn to rid yourself of a painful habit.
Respect
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What Is Trust?
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Contempt
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The Power Of Expectation
Hidden expectations become self-fulfilling prophesies
Pessimist To Optimist
Switch off pessimism and improve your health.

A View Of The Mind

How The Mind Works
Pattern recognition explains the brilliant wisdom of the mind.
The Triune Brain
The three guiding objectives of nature's control systems.
Consciousness & Soul
Your consciousness occasionally mirrors your soul.
Levels of consciousness
Evolution created different levels of consciousness.
What Causes Emotions?
The neural signals, which control behavior.
The Secret Of Intuition
Intuition is a pattern recognition algorithm.
The Subconscious Mind
The troubling drives within your subconscious mind.
What Is Intelligence?
A 2004 Nobel Prize refers to the central secret of human and animal intelligence.
Human Memory Capacity
About the immense capacity of human memory.
The Olfactory Sense
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How Do We Remember?
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Long Term Potentiation
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Behavior Pattern Recognition
Enables the mind to understand events.
Memory Research
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Amygdala & Emotions
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Insular Cortex & Social Emotions
The insular cortex grants you self awareness, empathy and social discipline.
Mirror Neurons
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Stress Relief & Attention
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Theory of Mind
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Meditation Benefits
Understand why it works.
A Theory Of Motivation
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Acupuncture - How it Works
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Daniel Amen
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Determinism vs Free Will
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Define Common Sense
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Intuitive Decision Making
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Organ Transplants
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The Limbic System
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Artificial Intelligence

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Future Computers And Robotics

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Stress Free Career Success
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Practice Love and Compassion
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