1-) WHAT IS AWARENESS? Awareness does not mean noticing. Awareness; On the contrary, not paying much attention to what is happening around us may mean not directing our attention there. So, is awareness something that can be acquired later? The earlier a brain starts awareness, the earlier it can learn. If awareness is an output of our mind and something that can be constantly improved, then there can never be anything like "I am" in this journey. In other words, as your brain's self-improvement and change capacity develops, awareness can always be taken to the next level. Since awareness is related to our brain, everything that affects our brain affects our level of awareness. The younger we start, the more advantageous we will be. There is an incredible parallel between what we call awareness and keeping our minds in the present moment. So being in the moment means being in the moment itself. Mindfulness is about keeping your mind in the moment. It is about ensuring that your mind, heart and body can be in the moment. Do whatever activity you want, it doesn't matter whether it's physical, mental or breathing activity. While doing this, if your mind is busy at work at that moment, that is, if your mind is busy experiencing the things you are experiencing, it is a mindful exercise. On the contrary, if you cannot stay in the moment with your thoughts while doing yoga in the most expensive yoga hall with the best breathing exercise teacher in the world, if you take your attention away from yourself and to a time period other than the existing time, it is not a mindful exercise. Think of it like this: you are doing pilates. You are in a pose. You need to focus on your breathing. If our mind is going on a journey towards the future, like "Ugh, I can't stand this pose, I wonder how many minutes will this lesson be over", the exercise you do is 10 out of 10 in terms of pilates culture, but when you look at the mindfulness technique, it is not a mindfulness exercise for your brain because your mind is not in the moment. . In short, we need to understand very well that awareness is related to our mind. Mindful exercise, mindful meditation is not about the work you do with your body, but the state of your mind while doing it. Since awareness is related to the brain, the sooner we start these things, the better. Awareness is your brain's time It is about being a n machine.
2-) AWARENESS AND BRAIN: As you know, the human brain is our most important being that makes us who we are, is unique, and is incomparably developed in any other living creature. Our speech, personality, character, perception of time, perception of reality, alertness, sleep, habits, thoughts, and behaviors are produced and operated by the brain. When we examine the brain, the first thing that strikes the eye is that we have regions divided into regions, consisting of millions of cells that are exactly the same, and each region has its own responsibility. There is a separate compartment for vision, a compartment for speaking and thinking, a compartment for memory, a compartment for feelings and emotions, a compartment for feelings and emotions, all of these are in separate compartments. When viewed from the outside, it is a single organ, but when we examine it, it has different regions, whether anatomical, pathological or when you look at it with brain MRI. And each region develops as it does its part and becomes atrophy unless it does so. This could mean: The visual center of a person blind from birth may not be as developed as ours. Or, the thinking ability of a person who reads a lot of books improves. In other words, our brain consists of many regions, not a single organ, and the abilities of these regions are not fixed. Moreover, these compartments form systems of interconnected maps. For example; When we are awake, the compartments of our brain are essentially the same. These compartments are the same when we are sleeping. In other words, my visual center is present even when I sleep. Only the communication systems of these centers with each other are different. When we are awake, the system works one way and when we are asleep, the system works completely differently.
DEFOUIT MOD (ORDER MODE)= It is a mode responsible for the autopilot. Once you learn to walk on the road, you won't pay attention anymore. Once you learn to ride a bike, you will use it again without paying attention. While reading the book, you may think, "What did I read right now?" and you must have read it. You don't even realize what you're reading because you're reading on autopilot. It means you are here 80% of the day. The brain in this mode becomes much more selfish. It is a very fast site. It responds very quickly to effects. He is very emotional. He likes to question the past. Now why do we all go back to our own emotional moments when we think about our own past? You understand. We cannot question this system. It was necessary for our survival. When this system works unnecessarily too much, problems such as anxiety, anxiety, depression, stress, impulsivity, anger, lack of attention, lack of interest, not learning something, and changing mood occur due to overwork of this side. There is also a system that is completely opposite to this system.
TASK POSITIVE MODE: This system works 20%. He likes to stay in the moment. It is a utilitarian mode. It is arithmetic and rational. It is open to innovation. On the basis of awareness training, people can transform their mind from the 80% dull mode into Task Positive Mode by doing mindful meditation, doing mindful mind exercises, changing the way they eat and eat, improving their sleep quality, doing some sports regularly, keeping themselves and their minds in the moment. If the two systems are compared with each other, it will be very easy to see this. Because, in fact, by focusing on your breath, staying in the moment and eating healthy, you reduce one working part of your brain and improve another working part. By looking at the differences, we can understand how important it is in our lives. So we can turn into an extremely utilitarian person. Rather than constantly being in the same painful, depressed mood, we make ourselves open to innovation. Rather than constantly regretting the past, we can enjoy living in the present. In other words, awareness has the potential to take us out of the old system and put us into the new system.
3-) BRAIN AND MOMENT: if we want to keep our mind in the moment, the first thing we will notice is 1-) IT WILL BE DIFFICULT AT FIRST. Crappy mode works all the time. The world we live in constantly pushes us to become animals. That's why we don't really need the Task mode that makes us human, and since we constantly use the crappy mode, our brain is predisposed to this side. That's why the most important principle of staying in the moment is that we know you will have difficulty, but you will continue to do it. Every time you feel our mind shifting from right to left, you will bring your mind back here. In other words, just as we learned how to walk by crawling, we will also learn and improve by not being able to stay in the moment. The main thing is to realize that we have moved from the task positive system to the crappy mode and focus on the moment again. From here it follows that modern neuroscience Nero Plasticite that he brought to us; Our brains constantly develop through what we do. 2-) IT WILL GET EASIER WITH TIME. If we compare our brain to a muscle, the exercises performed at first go from light to heavy. When we exercise, our bodies get in shape very easily, right? We will exercise our brains like him and do it again. Especially if we keep our minds focused on staying in the moment by choosing any method for 10 minutes as soon as we wake up in the morning and before going to bed, it will be much easier to do this after a certain time. This is a sports exercise that we apply to our brain. In summary, whatever you are doing at that moment, whatever breath you are taking, whether your eyes are open or closed, whether you are doing pilates or yoga, reading a book or playing a game, if your mind stays in the moment while doing what you are doing, this is a mindful exercise. And after a certain repetition and a certain period of time, this exercise causes the volume of blood and cells in that area, which our brain invests in a weak mode, to gradually shrink and a change in the residual structure. On the contrary, the place where humanoid abilities such as logic, comparison, planning, helpfulness, and thinking about others, called System 2, which makes a human being human, begins to receive more blood and grows more and more. And we have learned that the most important thing about mindful exercise is to stay in the moment, make the most important friend around him again, not just one day, but as many times as we can. Just as we can use one of our senses and our breath to stay in the moment, you can actually use it while doing a sport or singing a song. Our brain likes to use task mode at certain times of the day and continue this decision throughout the day. It has proven that if it is the first thing we do when we wake up in the morning, we are still more likely to use the conscious parts of our brain, even at noon. So when should I do it? If we do it as soon as we wake up in the morning, it will continue to do it in the back of our brain. The other time period is right before bed. If we do this 10 minutes before going to bed, it can be said that it is actually making you do awareness exercises in your sleep, as if you have chosen a PT for yourself. 3-) THANK 5 PEOPLE. Another awareness exercise is Task Positive, a game you can play to stay in the moment. Close your eyes and say 5 If you thank different people, you can stay in Task positive mode longer. You may have difficulty focusing on your breathing when doing yoga at first. When you close your eyes for a short time and thank the 5 people in your life, you are somehow, perhaps fraudulently, shifted from tacky mode to task mode. Thanks to 5 people, we know that modern science is now directed towards neuroscience. 4-) WHEN CHANGE LOCATION, THE FIRST 3 MINUTES ARE IMPORTANT. The first 3 minutes are important when we enter a new place, whether from our home to work, from our work to sports, or from any outdoor place to our home. It's a place where I try to decide whether I should live my life in crappy mode or task-positive mode. That's why, when you first go to work, a mind that worries and wanders like "oh, how will today go?", for example, if you really stay in the moment and focus on the work itself while cleaning the table, maybe you can spend the entire time we spend at work much more productively. Or, when you return home, talk about the bad events you experienced at work as soon as you enter the house, or have basic conversations like "Child, how are you, how are you feeling?" instead of taking him back to his past life instead of asking your child how he went at school. It is beneficial to make changes in information and communication. 5-) You have work to do at the government office and you are waiting in line in front of the civil servant. The fact that you show good intentions for the officer you will be talking to, rather than saying "Wow, they are making money from where they sit" is proof that your brain is switching from Dangerous mode to Task positive mode. So, if you are going to communicate with people you do not know a little later, you do not need to share this with anyone in the first 2 seconds. Making goodwill gestures from within opens the structure of an aware mind.
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