With the fast revolving world today, a lot of people are busy focusing on their work to attain success and reach their goals. However, working long hours can consume all of your time and even your mind that affect your well-being. So if you want to relax and rest your brainpower, here is what a mindfulness connoisseur has to say.
Junya Ogino said that workaholic people are the perfect example to try a "simple brain hack" that will keep them afloat despite their busy work lives. He advised individuals who work hard should try mindfulness to put them back on the top of their game.
"Mindfulness could save lives," he said, per the South China Morning Post. Ogino, the Google-born Search Inside Yourself contemplative training program's certified instructor, suggested workaholics should not be proud of their work addiction as it could put their mental health at risk.
Ogino believed that employees who are doing this and that at a time would never succeed in doing anything with multitasking. They are working their brain so hard that they cannot focus on a single task. They, too, are restricting themselves of having a little time for themselves by doing everything at once.
As a former workaholic himself, Ogino, who is also Mindful Leadership Institute's CEO, perfectly knows that employees should live a "more purposeful, centered life" by doing mindfulness practice. He even said that everyone could do it while by just being mindful of everything they do, whether they are cooking, showering or even working.
But, Ogino said that meditation and mindfulness are two different things. He explained that people do not have to meditate to be mindful. "If you're focusing on the present moment, that's mindfulness already," he added.
Mindfulness meditation, on the other hand, is the practice of developing and experiencing the quality of mindfulness, per SELF. UCLA professor emeritus of psychiatry and UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center founder Susan Smalley, Ph.D., said that by continuously practicing focusing on your "breath, body sensations, thoughts, feelings, and awareness," you can try mindfulness meditation.
Mindfulness meditation teaches people to learn how to let go of distractions in a gentle way when their attention is getting caught. You can still open your mind and attention to whatever comes up, and gently notices what arises and passes without putting your full attention to it.
Ogino suggested that mindfulness is very important today, especially in this digital age. People find it more difficult to focus on one thing, so there is a dire need to create a ritual to meditate every day and transform how they think, feel, and act.
