Coinnigh simplí é! / Keep it simple

Creideann go leor daoine go bhfuil go leor oibre i gceist leis an aireachas a chleachtadh. Síleann siad go gcaithfidh siad rud sa bhreis a dheanamh le go mbeidh cleachtadh acu ach tá mise anseo le hinsint duit nach bhfuil sin fíor!

A lot of people think that to practice mindfulness you have to put work into it. It can be thought of as something else to add to an already full to-do list but I am here to tell you that that doesn’t have to be the case! 

Táimid ar fad an-ghnóthach cheana féin agus níl aon rud eile uainn sa saol le rudaí a dhéanamh níos gnóthaí! Agus leis an smaoineamh sin, le haireachas a chleachtadh ní gá duit ach a bheith airdeallach ar an méid atá tú ag déanamh cheana féin. An tseachtain seo caite labhair mé ar an gcaoi gur féidir leat suigh nó a bheith má tá tú ag iarraidh suigh síos go ciúin in áit éigin leis an aireachas a chleachtadh. Bhí mé ag déanamh tagartha do chleachtadh ar leith; nuair atá am ar leith agat le gur féidir leat suigh síos agus a bheith ciúin. Muna bhfuil am mar sin agat is féidir leat aireachas a chleachtadh ag úsáid rudaí a dhéanann tú cheana féin.

We are all already really busy, we don’t need to add anything else to our lists and so that is how we can practice mindfulness. We can use something we already do and simply bring a mindful awareness to it and voila! We have a mindfulness practice! Last week I spoke about how to sit or lie when you are practicing mindfulness but that blog referred to a seated meditation practice, if that is what you have time to do or what you want to do but sitting in quiet meditation is not the only way to practice mindfulness.

Mar shampla, is féidir leat cleachtadh aireachais a dhéanamh as do bhricfeasta. Bí airdeallach ar an mbia a roghnaíonn tú le hithe, bí airdeallach ar an mbealach go ndéanann tú an bia sin réidh agus mothaigh an bia sin i do bhéal, an blas, conas a mothaíonn sé agus tú críochnaithe. An ólann tú aon rud? An bhfuil an rud sin té nó fuar, cén boladh atá aige.

For example you can practice mindfulness when you are having your breakfast. You can become aware of your food choices, the colours of your food, what you do in order to prepare it, how does your food taste? Do you drink anything? What does your drink of taste look like, taste like, smell like?

Agus sin do chleachtadh aireachais. Ní gá duit rud mór casta a dhéanamh as, coinnigh go simplí é agus beidh sé i bhfad níos fusa duit!

And that is your mindfulness practice. Please don’t make it more complicated then that, because it is not complicated! Mindfulness is simply the practice of bring awareness to what we are doing so if you bring that awareness to whatever you are doing then you are practicing mindfulness. Simple.