{"id":191,"date":"2016-07-17T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T14:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/wp\/?p=38"},"modified":"2016-10-24T20:08:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:08:58","slug":"when-mindfulness-isnt-necessarily-being-in-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/17\/when-mindfulness-isnt-necessarily-being-in-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"When Mindfulness Isn&#8217;t Necessarily &#8220;Being In The Moment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the technique of visualization used by professional athletes.\u00a0 The idea is to close your eyes and imagine yourself executing a particular play to perfection. It requires deep relaxation as your mind &#8220;trains&#8221; your muscles to perform the sequence when required without explicit commands. Or, more specifically with a single command that invokes the proper action. When athletes use visualization in training they aren&#8217;t &#8220;in the moment&#8221; however they are using the same mental pathways common to mindfulness. Their minds are &#8220;in <strong><em>A<\/em><\/strong> moment&#8221; &#8211; a precise future moment.\u00a0 In a limited way the results are almost identical &#8211; reduced stress, improved creativity, emotional composure, and mental clarity. It&#8217;s all just another form of mindfulness.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the skier. A serious skier is constantly scanning the terrain immediately ahead &#8211; maybe 20 feet in front of the skies. There is no thought given to the conditions immediately under the skies. The physical response to what is under the skies was &#8220;baked in&#8221; when the skier was 20 feet uphill. Active skiing requires this continuous state of mindfulness. Technically it&#8217;s not mindfulness &#8220;in the moment&#8221;. It&#8217;s mindfulness a split second in the future. Yet, it is still mindfulness. It also explains why skiers find the experience relaxing and mentally refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>These examples along with pop forms of mindfulness are not the same as deep mindfulness meditation, which is always &#8220;in the moment&#8221;. But, &#8220;being in the moment&#8221; isn&#8217;t a requirement in order to experience mindfulness in our daily lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the technique of visualization used by professional athletes.\u00a0 The idea is to close your eyes and imagine yourself executing a particular play to perfection. It requires deep relaxation as your mind &#8220;trains&#8221; your muscles to perform the sequence when required without explicit commands. Or, more specifically with a single command that invokes the proper action. When athletes use visualization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mind-power","category-mindfulness","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}