Mindfulness

Mindfulness Interview with Dr.Trish (Patrica) Luck and Dr. Mick (Michael) Krasner

Mindfulness always seemed either stating the obvious, or to airy-fairy for my practical mind. After an interview with two practitioners and trainers in this field, Dr.Trish (Patrica) Luck and Dr. Mick (Michael) Krasner I am appreciative of the benefits, and the simplicity.

As Trish said, it is simple yet one of the most difficult things you will do. And I can imagine, as simplifying your life sounds like such an easy thing to do, but it rests in fact on applying principles far more intensely then you would normally do. For instance, when you are minimising your belongings, the choices you make on what to keep and what to throw out, should be based on principles like do I use it, do I need it, do I use it for more than one thing. The less you keep, and the more you throw out, the more strictly you are applying the principles.

The  Health Benefits , as Mitch pointed out,have been shown clearly in the improved immune system in the elderly . Mindfulness can be applied anywhere, and the effect it has is to improve the quality of what you are doing, as well as ensuring your resilience, rather than burn out.

All of this leads me to ensuring that in what I do, as well as in my development programmes, I keep on accentuating focus, orientating yourself before you begin the task in terms of what you are trying to achieve, an understanding of the present situation, and resources you have to tackle the task as well as creating an environment which fosters mindfulness in tackling the task of learning and work. The outcome can only be that Namibia improves not only the quality of work, but lowers stress while increasing quality.

Listen to this interview on Iono FM