Did you hear the one about the supermodel staring at the orange juice carton? He was doing it because it said 'concentrate'. What does mindfulness mean? It means to concentrate on, to be aware of, to not be distracted from. But why be mindful of your own breathing? Because by doing so one is connected with the physical world, rather than spending all one's time in the fantasy land of the head. The thinking brain is a useful tool, but it's also a hugely dangerous Beast that can make us and those around us very ill indeed. The famous philosopher Descartes said 'I think therefore I am' but he used to spend all day in his bedroom thinking and not doing very much else so he would say that wouldn't he. But more importantly what he said isn't actually true, but the whole world seems to follow it by spending most of their waking hours thinking rather than feeling the world around us. This is sometimes called the Mind-Body problem.
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