Importance Of Right Mindfulness

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Right Mindfulness May Make My Mind Finally Right
When one considers the Buddha's Right Mindfulness, what comes to mind is the idea of thinking nothing. To have a blank emotional state of mind, however, being emotional human beings, makes us always having something in our minds. Thus, Right Mindfulness seems like a daunting task of thinking nothing. This is not what the Buddha had in mind when he spoke of Right Mindfulness. Notable, Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions, expressed it best when he wrote, "If we maintain a steady attention to our thoughts and feelings, we perceive that they swim in and out of our awareness, and are in no way permanent parts of us. We should witness all things non-reactively, especially our moods and emotions, neither condemning some nor holding on to others (110). In other words, Right Mindfulness is not to keep a blank emotional mind, however, to have our thoughts brought forward and learn to process them in an independent and nonjudgmental way. When considering this for my journal, I choose Right Mindfulness because I always seem to have my mind full of negative and judgmental thoughts about myself which affects me, such as taking a test.
To start with, I am aware that I have negative thoughts of mistakes I have made. Such as, …show more content…

However, in trying this exercise of right mindfulness with my last exam, I was a more aware of my subtle changes of thoughts and mood. With this in mind, when a new exam recently came up, I would be aware of the moment and my feelings and stop these thoughts from overwhelming me with negativity and affect my performance on my test. Thus, this time around, I notice that when taking the exam, I was less emotional and stressed and did better overall on my exam as opposed to previously when I would have

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