How to meditate without knowing you are meditating? Simple activities like colouring and watching birds can destress you
You become so involved in an alternative activity that you automatically cut yourself from disruptive thoughts and anxieties. It could be about sitting in the train and watching everybody around you, panning the countryside and being attentive in the moment, says holistic health coach Dr Mickey Mehta
For many of us, shutting out disruptive thoughts and disconnecting ourselves from our immediate environment becomes very difficult as the mind continues to tick. (Source: Pexels) Meditation is wrongly perceived to be about sitting cross-legged, shutting your eyes and blanking yourself out. For many of us, shutting out disruptive thoughts and disconnecting ourselves from our immediate environment becomes very difficult as the mind continues to tick. But there is something called the active way of meditating too. Everyone understands the passive way of meditating, simply stop doing and start being. It is withdrawing from all the activities that you are used to and coming to a standstill with self-awareness.
WHAT’S ACTIVE MEDITATION?
The other type of meditation is active. Simply put, this is about being mindful of everything that you do, switching off the familiar and switching on your responses to newer experiences, even something as simple as walking. You become so involved in the activity and are so absorbed in it that you automatically cut yourself from disruptive thoughts and anxieties. The ways to do this would be something simple, like sitting in the train and watching everybody around you, noticing the countryside rush by and being attentive in the moment. Or just sitting under a tree, feeling the breeze and taking in all that is around you, even focussing on other people milling around. Anything that takes you away from your own preoccupations.
Share
