Meditation for Mindfulness

Now all that you have in front of you is the juicy membrane orange slices. Go ahead pick a slice up, and bite, or suck on it. Feel the juice squirt in your mouth. Take your time in eating the orange slice. Enjoy every bit of the slice, and then swallow it and feel it travel down your throat. You have just enjoyed a slice of orange, and an experience of mindfulness.
This is the perfect example of a mindful meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh uses an example of one of his favorite cookies in his book: The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual on Meditation, and his book: The Present Moment. You are fully awake, and engaged in the activity that you are doing. You can do this with any type of chore, any type of food, and even driving. This too works to reduce your stress, and will be a great form of meditation in the work place. The important issue here is to learn to become mindful. By becoming mindful, we become peaceful. When we become peaceful we change the world one moment at a time.
Awakening to yourself, and your potential can be helped by being mindful. If we are to become mindful in the small things just think how easy the big things will become. Take the time, to do and experience life in mindfulness. This way, if you do have a young child you won’t leave them at school, in the car, or anywhere unsafe. By being mindful, you just might come up with a million dollar contract for those in business. For the rest of us, if we become mindful, we will stop and think about what we are about to do, and just maybe keep ourselves from hurting someone.

Meditation of mindfulness is a great way to break up our day. We may need a break, so we go obtain a latte, a cup of coffee, or a Coke ®. Whatever we do drink it slowly and savor every sip. Need to stop smoking? You could think about the puff you take, and follow it, smell it, before lighting and after lighting. Become one with that cigarette, and I bet it won’t take long before you quit. Practice makes us better. So let’s practice the meditation of mindfulness, and create a whole different world.