Mindfulness

It certainly is amazing what we can do in life. One such incident that
strikes me is how people can control their health using their minds. One
book that I read calls it "mindfulness".

While it may seem incredible and perhaps even frivolous to suggest that we
can control our health and other issues with our minds, it is actually a
very logical process.

For example, if you are aware you have an ailment e.g. migraine. Rather
than subscribing to the "it is a lifelong incurable condition" belief,
think instead that your migraine is likely to have slight variations from
other people's migraines, in terms of how it's triggered. With this in
mind, be very mindful about your lifestyle and on what or how you do
things. With such mindfulness, it increases your sensitivity towards your
daily life routines and makes you more aware of how you can control your
ailment from coming on.

I think mindfulness can be applied to many other aspects of our lives as
well.

Isn't it interesting for example, that we may not notice cars much, until
we have an intention of buying one and thus inevitably become mindful about
the cars around us? Rather than wait till situations happen to be mindful,
it pays to be more observant and clear about things around us.

By being mindful, we thus would not be easily "surprised" when we encounter
relationship or work challenges, because these finer points have already
been emerging in some form of pattern/trend way. In fact, we might even be
able to address these issues before they explode.

Of course, I think mindfulness goes beyond just looking and seeing.
Mindfulness requires you to observe, analyse and synthesise various
information. Armed with the knowledge, it increases one's confidence and
perspective of not just one's health, but also one's insights about the
world around us.