How to get a serene and attentive mind?

Stress is intimately related to our thinking: to what we think about things, to the beliefs that we elaborate throughout our lives and to the vision and value that we make of ourselves. With all that we create our reality; reality that can be threatening or peaceful.

It is estimated that we can have up to 60,000 thoughts throughout the day. In a stressed person, thoughts are often negative and pessimistic, whether it be about oneself, others or situations. Do you feel identified? If not, you can certainly imagine how a person will feel in those circumstances throughout the day. In the end, we find ourselves immersed in a mental world of distorted thoughts that do not allow us to value our environment with clarity and objectivity, and the worst thing is that we end up making them true, giving them full credibility. 

We do not propose to work to have a blank mind because IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. We cannot avoid thinking, but we can manage our thoughts in another way, which will make our stress more manageable.

How can we bring forth change?  To begin with, it is interesting to reflect on our thought patterns and whether they end up causing us to be distracted. Ask yourself this: Do I often have thoughts that make me suffer? When something happens to me, where do I usually put the focus of my attention? Do I find myself going over and over several redundant thoughts, without being able to stop them? Am I aware of how many things I pretend to attend to and solve? Perhaps paying attention to the language you use will help you answer those questions: How do you talk to yourself and what is going on around you? Sometimes it is easier to catch our thoughts when we express them in words.

From here, we can begin to train ourselves to change our thinking structure, and to do this we can use techniques that involve an active discussion of our own thoughts, cognitive restructuring or techniques that, starting from the acceptance of those thoughts (I do not discuss them, I do not block them or deny them), help me develop skills that facilitate me to distance myself from them and get rid of them by paying attention to what I want and what is useful to me, techniques such as Mindfulness, better known as Mindfulness. 

There are already many companies that have understood and verified that starting up this type of training or classrooms has an undeniable positive counterpart. We have gone from having distracted, not very concentrated and irritated employees to having attentive and serene collaborators, capable of making a more accurate interpretation of reality. It is evident that this translates into an improved work environment and economic results.

The investment with the highest return is the one we make in health and well-being.