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I am not sure if one can achieve a state of 100% Mindfulness. For me, to be in a position of maintaining a state of awareneness minute by minute when I have a full control of my feelings, thoughts, bodily sensations, feelings, and surrounding environment all the time is next to impossible. I think it takes a lot of practice, determination, and self discipline to achieve that.

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They say there are 7 principles or attitudes of Mindfulness. First one is 'NON-JUDGING'. Most of the time I am judging my judging my own thoughts, deeds, and actions. Why? I don't know. Probably it's because of being partial to my actions and biased in witnessing my own experience. I have to learn how to become completely non judgemental for my own and for others.

Second principle is PATIENCE. Patience comes with wisdom and practice. Patience brings so many other benefits with it. Like, acceptance, harmony, happiness, and so on.

Third one is 'CHILD'S MIND'. A child is always open and receptive to anything new in life. It's perhaps curiosity that is always there in a child. As we grow, we stop being curious, receptive, and open. We tend to get more stereotypical and close minded.

Fourth principle of Mindfulness is TRUST. We start losing confidence in ourselves because we stop trusting ourselves. Mindfulness demands a consistent development of basic trust with self and own's feelings. Trust brings hope, stability, strength, and clarity in life.

Fifth one is 'NON STRIVING'. Live the moment. Don't waste energy in change. Focus on what is evolving. Stay with yourself.

Next is 'ACCEPTANCE'. Accept what's happening in life. This broadens your horizon. Look at life with a wide angle.

The seventh and last principle of Mindfulness is 'LETTING GO'. Pay full attention to inner experience. Let go unnecessary thoughts, feelings, and situations. Stick to your present moment. Let the sorrows of past and worries of future go away. Stay calm. Stay fresh.

Mindfulness is developing ability to be fully present in the current moment with full awareness of where I am and what I am doing without getting influenced by surrounding situations. It is about bringing awareness to what I am directly experiencing by means of my senses. My state of mind must sync well with my thoughts and emotions. That's how I can become mindful. It requires regular training to the brain to be mindful. The ultimate goal of Mindfulness is to reach to a state of mind where there is a complete awareness of mental, emotional, and physical conditions.

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#EmotionalIntelligence #EmotionalBalance #BetterRelationships #HealthyMind #Mindfulness and #MentalHealth

With changing lifestyles, increasing complexities, and excelling online interactions, the importance of emotional intelligence has become a prime in everyone's life. Few recent incidents are clear examples of this. An IAS aspirant somewhere from South India, living in Delhi decided to finish his life for a very simple reason with no fault of his. The reason was that being not very conversant with Delhi, he reached wrong center for his Prelim exams. When told that the actual center where he has to appear for the exam is somewhere in the close vicinity, he rushed towards it. Just because he was a few minutes late to report at his actual center, he was denied to sit for the exam. Disheartened, he came back to his room and hanged from the ceiling fan thus finishing his life. Just in a spur of moment he took a wrong decision.

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It was merely a question of one more year. Was it family pressure? Was it peer pressure? Or it was some other reason? Whatever it was, he lost his emotional balance at that moment of time. Another example is of an army officer killing another army officer's wife because he fell in love with her, and she disapproved it being married already. Is it something related only to the newer generation? The answer is no. Even the aged people lack emotional balance and take momentarily wrong decisions that impart big impacts on their life. Daniel Goleman, since 1995 has been conducting various research works on Emotional Intelligence. He has been speaking globally about the importance of it. As a matter of fact, in today's environment, Emotional Intelligence (EI) is something that matters more than Intelligence Quotient (IQ). The basic fact is we have moved away from self-awareness.

The deeper is the self-awareness, the more we get self-managed. That automatically builds emotional balance. Subsequently, it leads to a better build and maintain relationships. That is perhaps, everybody needs in life.

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