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Stress Less by Meditating on a Raisin
Written by: Christiane PohlArticle Overview: Instant relaxation and a 'delicious' way of taking a mini break for your brain.
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Stress Less by Meditating on a Raisin
In fact you can replace the raisin with a grape or
any other peace of fruit. The key is to take a few moments to really BE with
this piece of fruit and life will never be the same again. For me it started
with a grape...
I had never eaten a grape by giving it my full
attention before. I smelled it, felt it, I looked at it in detail before I
popped it into my mouth and then started rolling it around and very slowly
chewed it with each bite tasting its sweetness…delicious. In those few minutes
I forgot all my problems and eating this one grape slowly was enough to quench
my hunger.
This has
since become one of my ‘Less Stress in an Instant’ techniques ever
since.
Then,
recently, I found this article on a study by Professor Mark Williams from the University of Oxford. The
technique he is describing is called MINDFULLNESS
MEDITATION.
This is
what he had to say on the ABC’s Health Report about focusing one’s attention on
a raisin:
“Indeed,
the first meditation we do is eating a single raisin and the purpose of that is
partly to dispel any myths about meditation, meditation isn’t an esoteric thing it’s simply doing things but knowing
you’re doing them as you’re doing them. And it turns out that if you eat
one single raisin but do it mindfully, taking five minutes to do it, you look
at it and you smell it, people suddenly get the realisation ‘oh my gosh, I
don’t usually taste raisins, I just shove them into my mouth without really
noticing what they taste like’. And that discovery that they are on automatic
pilot much of the time is, for many people, a big turning point.”
Try it yourself today. Take a 5 minute break and get involved with a grape or a raisin. …don’t be
shy. By practicing techniques like
this one you steadily start to increase your ability to focus and to widen your
awareness. You start to relax by becoming a 100% present in that moment. For a
while you loose all sense of time and place and self. Those moments are Mini
Breaks for your brain. The more Mini Breaks you can take the more rejuvenated
you will feel, the more creative and productive you will be.
With my
best wishes for your success,
Christiane
Pohl
Home Business Expert: Demystifying Visualization & Meditation
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About the Author: Christiane Pohl RSS for Christiane's articles - Visit Christiane's website  She has been working for many years as a coach and mentor with professionals in international companies. Her clients say that she has the gift of helping them identify what is most important to them, find solutions to challening situations and enable them to change and develop. She is considered to be resourceful, committed and practical with a healthy sense of humor. She has a diverse background which includes 20 years experience as a Manager in International Hotel Companies in Germany, Switzerland, England and Greece. Click here to visit Christiane's website  
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- I'd like to reference that article in my next blog post as well.. I worked in sales for years and found that days when I was positive, relaxed where days that it was easy to sell. On days that I was stressed I found I would not reach target. Stress is good at times, but it very easily becomes problematic. I do a lot of very physical exercise and work now, to manage it.
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