Mindfulness to disengage from overly emotional reaction

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“...Mindfulness is built around the premise of disengaging from overly emotional responses and extraneous thoughts that clutter the mind’s ability to think clearly. By using techniques such as breathing, visual imagery and meditation to slow down and focus on the present, the theory goes, a person can tap into a higher level of awareness. The more acute awareness is the byproduct of more active brain waves brought on by meditation, studies have shown.

Simply put, it’s going from worrier to warrior, says Rogers, 45, a lawyer who conducts seminars for other lawyers and school groups.

“We want to move into a place where the outside world will do whatever it’s going to do without us going through the roller coaster of emotions,” Rogers says. “We want to maintain this more alive, vigilant, present way of being that is somewhat independent of how things are going.”….

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