Dr. Arash Javanbakt

There are parts which are more comfortable.

Same you can do with your sleeves, like sleeves of the shirt.

People can feel every single inch of it.

So during this time, could I confidently say you were thinking less about past and the future?

This is exactly mindfulness.

I mean, to a lot of people, mindfulness is being with some candle and some weird music in the basement, but this is mindfulness.

This is one of the ways we use and we can use, which is very against what's happening these days, because these days you're constantly not here.

You're on your phone, you're on Instagram, you're on Facebook, 200 different contradicting and different subjects in a matter of seconds, you're just scrolling down and up.

But then with these experiences, we use our senses to come back to here and now, which is oftentimes the safest moment.

And when we are not in there and then, which is just imaginations, life is a lot easier and less scary.

Excellent question.

So it's a practice.

The same way we build muscles in the arms and in the body with going to the gym, this kind of practice basically gradually teaches us to be here and now.

And the more and the longer we can, we will basically be able to do it longer and more and gradually.

First of all, it's a respite.

If I can, that's a lot of activities we do that recharge our brains, right?

I go to the gym and I do go to a boxing gym.

I hit the bag, not the people.

doing that one hour then i'm hitting the bag i'm just right there because i cannot think about something else and it's very refreshing so mindfulness any mindful activity in that sense could basically be a reset for the mind basically takes us away for a second from all the worries and troubles and problems we are thinking about or we have made for ourselves in our minds

But then also when we do more and more and more and more and more of this in the midst of the anxious moments and difficult situations, it's easier for us to come back to here and now.