Over the past 20 years, the Western world has discovered, not least thanks to the efforts of microbiologist and stress researcher Jon Kabat-Zinn for mindfulness, that you can practice mindfulness without having to join a religion.<\/p>\r\n
\u00a0The word 'mindfulness' is a translation of the Sanskrit word smriti<\/em> and the Pali word sati<\/em>, both of which roughly cover 'remembering presence in everyday tasks'.<\/p>\r\n The foundation of the presence training that leads to mindfulness is 'body-anchored presence', or 'presence directed towards the body', kayagati-sati.<\/em><\/p>\r\n In this guide to gathering attention, Martin takes the body as his starting point and leads us through three main steps in classical mindfulness: Awareness of the body with an attitude of non-judgmental acceptance followed by attention to the breath, anapana-sati.<\/p>\r\n With this foundation, you are eventually instructed to let go of your thoughts \u2013 and when they come again, to discover distractions and let them go.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":15861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":[230],"focus":[205,217],"person":[344],"practice_category":[143],"position":[193],"varighed-kategori":[173],"class_list":["post-17233","exercise","type-exercise","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","focus-fokuseringsevne","focus-naervaer","person-martin-guldberg","format-lydfil","practice_category-guidede-meditationer","position-siddende","varighed-kategori-10-20-minutter"],"varighed":"11","embedded_audio":"