Thread by @DoctorEmotions

1) Diary of The Emotions Doctor.

Have you ever driven past the junction of your house? Or have you ever forgotten if you locked the door of your house on your way out or not?

2) It’s easier to understand what mindfulness is all about by first looking at it’s opposite: mindlessness.

3) Mindlessness so easily leads us down the path of getting hooked. It’s the state of unawareness and autopilot. You are not really present. Instead you are relying too heavily on worn distinctions that haven’t been thought through.

4) You know you are mindless when you forget someone’s name as soon as you hear it.

You know you are mindless when you forget to turn of the gas or electric cooker.

5) Or you eat or drink without being hungry or thirsty.

Harvard and University of Virginia put this idea to the test by psychologist Timothy Wilson and colleagues. They asked participants to sit alone with their thoughts for a period of about ten minutes.

6) The result was most of the subjects were miserable alone with their thoughts.

7) This illustrates how uncomfortable people can be with their inner world. It could be they are unaware that they have a self. An entity that exists apart from our social media presence, resume, status.

8) Mindfulness can help us get more comfortable with our inner essence and helps us follow the original commandments of self - improvement.

Which is KNOW THYSELF.

-EMOTIONAL AGILITY

9) Dear @threadreaderapp, please UNROLL. Thank you.