The Dr claims that when we live in the present moment we are able to connect with a type of “innate intelligence”.
Dr. Kabat-Zinn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and founder of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. In this center he developed a stress reduction program based on mindfulness, known by the term: “Our program is nothing alternative, we are part of the departments of and we have scientific evidence. Patients manage to control chronic pain, anxiety, panic and alleviate the effects of cancer or heart disease, but I recommend it to anyone”.
In a publication by he assures that “With the practice of we can restore our mental and physical balance, stimulate healing and well-being”. At school we are taught to think rationally, however “logical thinking is sometimes not useful when solving vital problems.”
When we limit our consciousness to our logical reasoning, everything we don’t know about becomes impermeable and inaccessible. We close ourselves off from the possibility of “thinking differently”.
That is to say, if we only follow the paths that we already know, we will not be able to provide us with other advantages. To live mindfully “there’s nothing to do”. Perhaps this “doing nothing” is what causes the most perplexity, since we are used to solving what we consider problems through intervention. “It’s about sustaining your experience from the presence.”
Although there are circumstances in our lives that we do not like, there is nothing to change “because whether you like them or not depends only on your thoughts.” Thus, “it is not about trying to change, it is about, instead of living asleep, living awake». Instead of rejecting what we don’t like, we can learn to embrace it. And “if you embrace that thought, it no longer continues to reproduce itself.”
The effects of mindfulness carry over to the physical level Well, according to Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, it transforms our brain and “regions that have to do with learning and memory widen.” In addition, “neural connections are improved and there are even changes in the genome.”
At Bioneuroemoción®, we use the expression «observe the observer«, that is, to observe that voice in the head that thinks, judges and positions itself without identifying with it.
We are the ones who think, but we are much more than that, each moment can be lived in infinite ways and it is our responsibility to choose the most convenient and constructive one. Living in the present moment implies that in order to see clearly what is in front of us, we must “clean” the filter through which we see it. When we stop judging and understand that there is nothing to do because we know that what is manifested is our own interpretation of the world.
We know that, for the unconscious, . Memories are always present and if we don’t make them aware, they find a way to manifest themselves. For this reason, in one, he makes the consultant speak always in the present, because everything is present, even if we place it in the past or the future, everything affects and influences the now. Reality is shaped by our awareness of what is happening, and this will always depend on the interpretation that we make of what happens and the emotions and memories that we associate with it. To increase awareness you have to live in the present, and to live in the present we must release the rope that ties us to the past.
“I am not my body; I am more. I am not my speech, my organs, hearing, smell; that’s not me. The mind that thinks, I’m not. If none of that I am, then who am I? The consciousness that remains, that’s what I am.”
Ramana Maharshi
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