Hi Kira Leskew here. Welcome to my youtube channel, I'm doing a series of
videos on mindfulness meditation and mindfulness practice in the business
community. So today's topic which is interruptions, fall into the category
mindfulness in action.
So today's society we have so many things coming at us all the time, that we constantly get
interrupted. In my last video I talked about how long it takes to get back on
focus, but one of the other things it does to us, it creates a lot of stress and it
actually can become an addictive pattern if we don't catch it and if we don't stop it. And we see it
today with people that if you're having a conversation with them, and they
can't focus on the conversation, their eyes are looking all over the place or
they aren't staying on topic, their minds jump in here and there. Or another one is
that you know people are really addicted to their devices, so they can't have a
conversation with you, they need to get on a device. We also see people can't
focus on driving, even sports, other activities...
People are having a really hard time just being present with what they're doing and the
reason for that is that the more you interrupt yourself,
it actually forms the same brain chemistry as an addiction. So in one of my earlier videos,
I talked about the different brain states, the two that mostly apply to waking are
alpha and beta, so really high beta which is high cycles per second in the brain
actually becomes addictive. And in fact, you know, either one whatever we
do we form a pattern with that, and we become better at it. So there's tremendous
amount of benefit if you're feeling stressed a lot, to find little micro times
during the day when you can be fully present and not be interrupting yourself.
And the same with any other pattern or habit that we form in life, whether it's a good one, one that's
helping us and serving us, or one that's detrimental to us, it takes time and practice and
energy and focus to develop it, whether it's positive or negative. And we kind of
develop momentum in either direction. So if you find that you're having a really
hard time doing some of these things, like you can't have a conversation
without checking your phone or looking around, or just being quiet with yourself makes you really
nervous, spend time practicing giving yourself even if they're short periods of time during
the day. when you're not getting interrupted. You can look at my last
video on some different ideas on how to do that, but I highly encourage you to
just give yourself and allow yourself to feel what it feels like to not be
interrupted. I know I went from a place where I was really really stressed to
not as much, and at first it seemed uncomfortable because I was so used to
being stimulated for something. It felt like, oh my gosh, I should be doing
something, something's going to happen. And the truth is, if you find yourself doing that, ask yourself this
question: Is anything bad happening
right now? And 95% of the time probably closer to ninety-nine point something
percent of the time the answer is No.
Oh ok, I can just relax for a minute or five minutes. I hope that helps, look forward to
sharing more mindfulness in action tips with you on future videos.