Most of times my mind is busy with planning the schedule of the day or having some talks with people that I have meetings while cooking. Actually, cooking provides a wonderful opportunity to train our minds to be aware and be at the present. It’s also a nice way to get back in touch with foods we eat. This morning I cooked my high protein healthy breakfast mindfully. My exercise have already started with thinking of what my body needs to eat. Then I poured the oil in the pan. I listened to sounds and noticed smells while the heat was increasing. I tried to notice how the addition of each new ingredient affected smells and sounds. I tried to be aware of how my mood and my thinking changed throughout the cooking process. I didn't eat any piece of ingredients at the time of cooking (yes, normally I have been already full before the meal gets ready 🙈😂). This time I realized that I had a lot more fun while cooking and I was more hungry when my breakfast got ready. Oh la la! 👨🏻‍🍳🍳🍽#mindfuliving #mindfulmornings#mindfulcooking #mindfuldayeveryday#mindfuliving #mindfulmoments#healthyfoodporn #proteinrich#squashomelette #healthylife#yesimindakitchen

We can not spend our lives only listening meditation musics such like we can not eat chai seeds and avocado from the morning till the night! Mindfulness is not for standardize our lives in the way of becoming healthy stereotypes, it is for to help us live in the moment with awareness and state of being fullfilled. More we try mindful exercises, more we gain the ability to feel the flow automatically. So it is important to work mindfulness into our day to day activities or personal choices. Last night, I was at the concert and my mindful listening exercise began spontaneously with singer's tender voice. It caught me and I couldn't even move. I was fully concentrated and recognizing each of sounds comes from different instruments. I realized different feelings in some songs and also felt them on some parts of my body. It was absolutely inspiring 💜🙏🏻#mindfulmoments #mindfullife#mindfuliving #mindfulnight#mindfullistening #mindfulwatching#concert #deniztekin #feeltheflow#feelthemusic #rhythmdivine

This evening, I went to theatre with my friend. We were really excited before it started. I said her that it would be a mindful event for me. With this purpose in mind, during and after the theatre I tried to notice the responses that happen in both my body and my mind. I had fun mostly but from time to time I felt tense. I laughed frequently, especially when there were an amusing anecdote about sexuality. Some parts made me think about how limited our lives and how small our worlds were. I felt so sad to realize it but at that moment I didn't fall into a brown study. After watching I noticed that the ideas, values and content of the theatre seemed to stay with me. For instance, there was a criticisim about too much focus on other people and their lives. Nevertheless, we found ourselves having an intimate chat about one of the actress on the play. Recognising this made us feel ashamed of ourselves but also surprised 😇#mindfulness #mindfulwatching  #mindfuliving #mindfulmoments #theatretime#bodyandmind #mindfulthinking

A satisfying breakfast and also mindful breathing are my musts for a good morning. Today I added mindful running for several mornings of a week to my must do list. ☺ Actually running has been always compelling for me compared to walking. I get tired easily and short of breath. But I gave a chance to my body and decided to strengthen my heart. 💜 I said myself that I am not in a hurry and I am not a racehorce either. Jogging might be a good option for slow tempo. I could have deep breathes mindfully while jogging. Besides I could walk when I got tired. Then lets start running! ✌🏻😉 #mindfulrunning#mindfulliving #mindfullife#mindfulbreathing #mindfulmoments#mindfulwalking #seasidelife #healthylife#selfhelp #mindfuljogging

Today, I walked just for walking. I walked with freedom without hurry. There were a few people who were camping and some homeless dogs were running. Life was all around. I felt the calmness and freedom. I looked around and saw how long the beach was, rocks and sand under my feet , black and white clouds and the limitless of the sea. I listened to sounds of the wind and felt the fresh breeze. A bit melancholic, but very peaceful. This time looking around fully focused gave me a chance to notice a little lovely sea shell as a gift. If you be a good child, maybe you can see the love ✌🏻💟#mindfuliving #mindfulweekend#mindfulwalking #mindfullness#mymindfulday #walkingonthesand#seashells#walkingnearthesea#wefoundloveinahopelessplace

Last night, I was at the concert. I was watching the stage by looking at my phone's screen and talking to my friend frequently. It was not boring but my mind reminded me mindful listening as a duty 🙈Then I decided to pay all my attention to my ears. While I was listening the music with my eyes had closed, I was fully focus to the different layers of sound, subtle changes in rhythm, various elevations of pitch and the movement of the instruments and voices. It was incredibly satisfying. I repeated the exercise for a few more songs 👌🏻🎶 #mindfuldayeveryday #mindfulnights#mindfullistening #mindfulliving #concert#aintnosunshine #accusticmusic

• Today I was feeling disappointed and I was thinking about solutions how to stop that annoying feeling while walking near the seaside. Then I saw some birds which were standing quiet and inoffensive on the sea. I just stopped and started to observe them. 

  There are moments in life that are difficult to endure and make us feel angry, anxious, disappointed etc. In these times we often want to escape the pain, drown it out or push it away somehow. We may distract ourselves with activities or drown it out with our potential addictions (such as food, alcohol, shopping, gambling...). All these ways of avoiding pain only helps to perpetuate it. Also avoidance keeps us from living meaningful life. 

  Birds made me remember this. They were standing still like a painting. I decided to stay mindfully in the moment without trying to find any solutions. While my eyes were on the scene of birds, I tried to give attention to my deep breathes.  

  Sometimes life says you to stop. Stop and wait. For "under-stand", we need to be "stand" first! ✋🏻#mindfulmoments #mindfuliving#mindfultuesday #stayingmindful#tobeopen #handledisappointment#birdingdaily #standingstill #difficulttimes#understandingyourself#mindfuldayeveryday #mindfulbreathingBeğen

Today I found myself thinking about pain at the end of the session. It is weird to know that when we do not have a toothache, we don’t seem to enjoy it. Happiness and peace is there in the present moment, but we find it boring and that is why we look for something more exciting! It feels so relaxing when a toothache finally goes away. I wish only we could appreciate the absence of that pain all the time. It is the same when our hearts ache with the daily news or personal problems. Today I decided to appreciate my healthy body parts' importance. So after my mindfull meditation practise for reducing pain, I gave my attention to my other body parts with deep breathes and express sincere thanks to each of them. 🙏🏻 

 #mindfuliving #mindfulmoments #appreciatethemoment #toothache#mindfulmeditation #mindfulbreathing #mindfulsaturday

Say hi to my talky chin 🙋🏻 I had been suffering from toothache for three days. Today it reached the highest level! After I had some interventions, my dentist saw my CT scan and he told me that I have to get a root canal. It was annoying for me cuz it meaned that this toothache would last a few more days! 

Anyone who has suffered toothache for any reason knows that it doesn't matter how many painkillers you had, the pain is not completely disappear. So as soon as my appointment ended, I decided to try mindfulness meditation to reduce my toothache. 

According to researchers, mindfulness meditation can bring greater pain relief than a placebo. Actually different meditative practices can be termed "mindfulness". One of them is focused attention which is associated with maintaining focus on a specific object, say, flow of the breath or an external object. And other one is open monitaring involves a non-directed acknowledgment of any sensory, emotional or cognitive event that arises in the mind.  

Normally, pain creates tension our body, which feeds back into our brain, which responds by turning up the ‘volume’ on its pain amplifiers, creating even more suffering. So it is important teach our body to ‘unlearn’ its tension. For this reason, today I tried to tune into my body and breath as I move for helping release any pent up tension. 

First, I relaxed my body and breathed as naturally as I could. Then from my head to my feet, I gently rotated each of my body parts in a circle for 30 seconds while keeping my breathes soft and deep. Also I rotated each of them in the other direction for another 30 seconds. Everytime it finished, I relaxed each of them. Then I tried to notice the effects of the movement on my body parts (e.q. difference between right side and left side or the sensations that I felt). 

At the end of the meditation I realised that I was feeling the pain less than before. I will repeat it through following days until my treatment ends. 🔨🙅🏻👄  

#mindfulfriday#mindfuliving #mindfulmeditation #painreleaver #painkiller #mindfullife #toothache#rootcanaltreatment #reducepain #reducepainnaturally #dentisttime

• Researchers say that people who multitask are not being more productive they just feel more emotionally satisfied from their work. Our brain can't focuse on all activities at the same time. Instead, multitasking splits the brain and all our brain is trying to madly switch between the activities.  

  While I was eating my delicious and appetising meal at the restaurant, classical music and voices of the people around were accompanying it. Also, I was with my friend and we were talking during that time. Furthermore restaurant was near the seaside and we were able to watch the snow, the sea and birds at certain times. I can say that they were pretty cool moments for me. Even so, I decided to do "limiting external stimulus exercise". 

  When my friend went to restroom, I left my knive and fork. I looked at the one fixed point on the table and tried to concentrate the classical music without noises of people. After approximately three minutes concentration to the music, I gave my attention to the meal by looking each ingredients while trying not to pay attention the music anymore. Two minutes later, I tasted each of the ingredients one by one mindfully (watched on the fork, smelled, ate and swallowed slowly). Then I stopped mindful eating and again I paid my attention only to the classical music. 

  I can say that it was not easy to switch between them and to stand longer in each task. Good job brain! 💪🏻🙂  

  #mindfulday#mindfullife #mindfulliving #mindfuleating#mindfullistening #classicalmusic#multitasking #splittingbrain#limitingtheunlimited #seafoodsalad#deliciousmeal

• Fear is a basic sense and a strong motivator of our behaviors. Master Yoda says that: "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” When we feel the fear, we try to control our environment and the people in it in our attempt to avoid the things we fear and stop suffering. But most of time it is just an illusion because there’s very little that we can control in our lives.   

  At these days (especially after terror attack in the night club in Istanbul), I feel the fear from time to time and also desperation after it (mostly comes from an opinion that I have no control on it). Tonight I went to seaside, sat down and tried to do mindfulness exercise for my fear. First of all, I thought over the new year night with terror attack. Then I paid my attention to my body and realised that the fear sat in my heart such like a big stone and brought me mental distress.  

  I took some deep breaths (maybe 10 or 15) to slow my body down. Then I told myself that I am afraid of dying in an unexpected way. Such like this, giving chance to myself to sit with it while not judging it helped me to recognize that I was not my fear. It was just an emotion just like my other emotions. It could come and go. I looked at the sea and watched waves coming and going in a same way. 

  Then I asked myself if there was anything that I could do to decrease the possibility of dying. I found one or two safety plan that could make me feel calmer but no more.  

  Furthermore, I asked myself if I had known I will have been dead suddenly what could I have wanted to do before die. I thought maybe my death fear was my opportunity to choose living more spontaneously and chase after my needs. My fear about dying hadn't gone but I felt more relaxed. 

  Anyway, mindfulness helps us to cope with our fears. But it doesn't mean that we no longer feel them. It means our fears no longer control our lives.  

  ✌🏻 #mindfulness #mindfuldayeveryday#mindfulliving #mindfulemotions#fearleadstoanger #yodasays #masteryoda#copewithfears #copewithemotions#healing #afraidofdying #fearofdeath#terrorattackinistanbul #reinaterror

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