Mindfulness improves the quality of every experience.
Mindfulness is necessary is to know correctly as it is in the right context. Mindfulness is also necessary to remain vigilant of negativity arising in you so that you can shun negativity to cultivate positivity Positivity not only means optimism and benevolence but also ethics.
During mindfulness, you withdraw and disengage from all other experiences to remain aware of one experience. After remaining aware of that one experience for some time, you dissociate from that experience as well to reflect and remain self-aware without the Self.
When you experience mindfully, you outgrow the experiences, dissociate and detach from experiences without getting drawn or lost into experiences. Mindfully detached from experiences, you know correctly as it is in the right context and you are not controlled by effect of experiences.
Mindfully you are aware without self, you become your actions, and you continue in the impact of your actions.
Mindfulness meditation benefits you physically, psychologically and spiritually to make you better.
Natural Rules for Practice of Mindfulness
Empty Stomach
Practice mindfulness meditation with an empty stomach. Meditating with a full stomach can make you sleepy and disturb process of digestion. Meditating with an empty stomach without feeling starved can help you to focus your attention and energies for mindfulness.
Healthy Natural Environment
Practice in a well-ventilated healthy environment preferably in open nature. Fresh natural air is source of life energy necessary for improving the vital force. Polluted or stagnant air will make you feel lethargic and uneasy.
Natural Breathing Without Regulation
Breathing should be natural without deliberate regulation so that there is no rise of the feeling of being inner doer. Breathing should be constant so that you breathe in enough oxygen and avoid sleepiness.
Right Posture
Body should be relaxed but lower back should be straight. Straight lower back keeps the spinal canal well aligned and spinal impulse unhindered. A well aligned lower back spine will eventually optimally align the core and pelvic floor muscles. When outer body aligns the inner body also gets well aligned with the outer body.
In right natural posture for meditation, the level of knees should be below the level of lap and hips so that breathing can easily become diaphragmatic. With straight lower back and level of knees below the level of lap, the breathing can happen with full capacity and deep but less frequent, thus calming the mind effortlessly.
Natural Mindfulness Practices
Natural mindfulness practices make use of natural means and are based on no-mind or calm mind.
Mindfulness of Breath
Through mindfulness of breath, you remain constantly aware of each and every breath at entrance of your nostril so that you do not get opportunity to think or imagine anything. By remaining aware of breath at nostrils, you disengage and dissociate from breath as well as everything that is know and unknown to remain as purely aware.
Aware and detached without associating with known and unknown, you know correctly in the right context without getting controlled by the effects of known or unknown.
Mindfulness of Nature
Eyes are direct extension of your brain. Whatever you see directly affects your brain.
Keep breathing and fix your stare in chaotic pattern of wild vegetation, or clear sky, or waves of ocean in such a way that you remain aware but do not get any opportunity to think or imagine or react to what you are seeing. Chaotic patterns of wild nature through your eyes can sooth and rewire your brain.
With practice, you can dissociate from the experience of nature as well as from everything known and unknown in order to disappear psychologically in the detached seamless clarity of awareness without self.
You can also practice this exercise with your beloved partner by gazing into their eyes.
Mindfulness of Gap Between Consecutive Thoughts
Breathe into remaining aware of gap between two consecutive thoughts.
With practice, you can dissociate and detach from the experience of gap between two consecutive thoughts, disappear psychologically in the detached seamless clarity of awareness and learn to remain detached from any experience without getting drawn or lost into experiences.
Mindfulness of a Single Sensation
Keep breathing while remaining conscious of any one single sensation without thinking or imagining anything while body is absolutely relaxed. Practicing this exercise through massage with your romantic partner can be a form of erotic Tantra meditation.
You can also walk mindfully with bare feet with full awareness of the sensation of ground. You can also eat mindfully with full awareness of taste while eating organic food. You can also smell mindfully with full awareness of smell while smelling a flower.
With practice, you can detach from the experience of the single sensation, disappear psychologically in the detached seamless clarity of awareness and learn to remain detached from known and unknown without getting drawn or lost into known and unknown.
Mindful Actions
Self in form of self-ideation, self-conception, self-identity, self-image, inner self etc. creates rigidity in life and actions. Inner self is an illusion due to which you cannot be wholly into action while remaining aware.
Without being inner self, you are awareness, the phenomenon of knowing arising due to your indispensable constituent cause and conditions, you involuntarily become your actions and continue in the effect of your actions.
Perform any action in such a way that you do not get any opportunity to think or imagine. For such refined action, you need to be well trained and practiced. Such action is skillfully performed without striving through right cause and in the right conditions.
Disappear psychologically and involuntarily become the action by remaining aware and detached from action. Learn to remain detached from any experience without getting drawn or lost into experiences.
Mindful in Between Eyebrows
With closed eyes, without any activities in the mind, sit in a right posture and remain aware of each breath at the entrance of nostrils in such a way that you do not get any opportunity to think or imagine anything.
Do this until you become aware in between eyebrows. When you are seamlessly aware in between eyebrows, relax in that seamless clarity of awareness. If thoughts appear or attention wander, then again focus on breath at entrance of nostrils until you remain clear seamlessly aware in between eyebrows.
With regular practice, learn to stop looking and you can go deep in meditation during which you disappear psychologically but remain fully aware without the Self or feeling of being inner self.
Fully aware with eyes closed you can stop looking and stay detached from the known and unknown to become self-aware without the self.