Our ability to dis-identify from our thoughts is identical to what certain ‘Gurus’ of the kind, like John Kabat-Zinn, call ‘Mindfulness’:
‘The ability to focus your attention in the present, on purpose, in a non-critical way’. Other scholars refer to this skill as ‘Attentional Intelligence’.
Everyone though agrees that it is something than can be learnt, trained and has multiple, quantified benefits to whomever trains it. Τhese benefits apply on the physical, mental and emotional level. According to undoubted findings from research and experiments, it would be very accurate to say that the 2nd Key to the Q-Mind ‘opens 20 more doors’, as many as the benefits to the person training this skill:
Reducing heart diseases,
strengthening the immune system,
improving depression,
helping in a post-traumatic-syndrome, improving memory,
alleviating chronic pains,
helping lose weight,
improving academic performance reducing stress & anxiety,
solve problems better,
become more receptive and emotionally stable,
acquiring an ‘observational attitude’,
increasing extroversion,
opening the mind,
improving the ability to focus as well as the emotional Intelligence,
reducing egocentricity and
improving the ability to purposefully focus attention.
It seems that, by repeating the ‘Mind push-ups (see previous post) or other similar exercises that we shall learn, certain brain cells are ‘folding’ in such a way that yields the above benefits.
In a nutshell: You have 20 good reasons why you should train yourself in the ‘Mind-Pushups.
