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theCareer girlVeterinary continuing education onlinenews, Ph.D.Sonia olsen AReview how we through the practice of mindfulness attention to control our lives.This is our veterinarian industry in well-being and an important step to build resilience.

By Dr.Sonia olsen A
Trainer BluePearl clinicians health and welfare

Take back control: the practice of mindfulness

"There is a space between stimulus and response.In the space, we have the ability to choose our response.Our response is to our growth and our freedom."- victor frankel

Our brain is amazing, complex, busy place.Way of the thought his brain like glands secrete enzymes in the body.Some of these thoughts, opinions, and the resulting actions are beneficial and productive.Other don't have that much.When we are in emotional reactions, such as anxiety, fear, or impatient when?Or when we feel pressure or threat?In this case, our attention become fragile, we can't control myself and our responses to life's inevitable challenge.

Neuroscience research has shown that, as a result of neural plasticity, our brains can grow and change in our life.We can practice and to train our brain, so as to strengthen our attention, optimize brain health.Strengthen our attention and to higher consciousness of life, allows us to better control their own thoughts and reactions.To cultivate mindfulness attention is one of the support raising awareness training space.

The attention of mindfulness to promote our the objective state of thought and emotion.Can we slow down and visit our higher cognitive center to respond, not react to the environment.Compassionate, consciously practice mindfulness attention can help us to prepare, skillfully to overcome obstacles in life more effectively.

This state of attention how to work?This allows us to part from the response of the brain, such as the amygdala, into our "advanced", namely the forebrain and anterior cingulate nuclei.This awareness allows you to be objective, curious observer, observing the actual situation of the moment in your life happen.Our perception of "what is" may be limited by fear, prejudice, habits, and/or wishful thinking.Mindfulness attention to help us in a more secure way to respond to these challenges.We practice concentration, the more attention when distracted or story sweep, and return to the initial focus, support to improve concentration and attention of neuronal pathways become closer and build.Our brain will become better!

When we deliberately choose pay more attention to in the interaction with the present, it will be to refine and clarify our attention.When we more fully to exist, and this enables us to have a destination to respond honestly.This is a famous writer and psychologist Dr Frankel pointed out in space, the citation in this space, growth and freedom of choice.

I remember as a young emergency vet, were involved in useless and painful "hypothesis" and "I must find out and solve the problem...Now!"In the trend of.Thinking for critically ill patients.My teammates from owner and may be there to experience and feel clear thinking and emotions can interfere with my ability to plan for the treatment and diagnosis to make effective decisions.With my experience as a clinical doctor and the growth of faith, and when I consciously practice mindfulness attention, I can see to slow down and step by step to make a decision for the nervous cases of wisdom.Acknowledged due to sympathetic mood and body feeling could be part of my empathy to take care of the self, sometimes even part of the perfectionist tendencies, I am better able to make effective and efficient decision.It is in the note with some objective in the process of combination of conscious breathing, I can improve my senses, and focus my attention, and acquire the knowledge necessary to continue.It's not difficult to maintain mindfulness, but not always the hard part;Remember to look out for is possible obstacles, but the reward is valuable.

The application of mindfulness attention:Energy flow to your attention

The good news is that we are able to use mindfulness attention to training and to reconnect our neural pathways.We can better control their own behavior and response to challenging stimulus, rather than being hijacked by our emotions or be fooled by the destructive mode of thinking.How to do this?The key is to slow down and consciously focus shifted to the external and internal actual things.Give up self esteem, restrictions, habits, behavior and thought patterns.Instead, choose close to the real situation -- stories of thunderstorms, judgment, mood, habitual response "knee-jerk" reflection.

Pictures on meditation woman sitting on a rock

Stop - concentration.

As described below, STOP practice is a kind of easy to remember and use the ego health care practice, can focus attention, soothes the nervous system and to control our feeling, emotion and thinking mode.This practice using the power of your inner wisdom, breathing and your five physical senses the you anchor in the present.It consists of four steps:

S: temporarily stop what you're doing, let your attention stay in the moment

T: through the nose and mouth for 3 to 5 times, intentional breathing slowly, deliberately breath longer than the inspiratory.Then, the natural breath.

O: to observe your current environment and use your five senses, naming and record to you for at least three you can see, hear, touch, smell, or taste the experience of things (yes, eat in here to take the time to add moisture or equal to the extra self - care!).Scan your body and pay attention to the places where you might feel nervous.What are the mood at the moment - you can simply say their name and improve your sense of self?

P: with more consciousness, less reactive and your sense of self care need to connect to move on.It can be summed up in a ask: I now what is the most need to be aware of?This moment I need?

STOP method is really helpful when using a longer expiratory phase of slow, intentional breathing patterns, we will use our "rest and digest" regulating the parasympathetic nervous system.At this moment, feel your feet on the ground or the weight of your body on the chair to you with your body.In addition, the use of your five senses to improve your perception of things around, and further to your attention on your current experience, this will reduce the cortisol in the blood, and help to transfer the brain activity to react less forebrain regions.When you need to focus "comes back online, can consider to use this approach to concentrate, restore energy.

As an emergency clinician, I using the STOP practice again and again, so that when I was in a shift during dealing with many cases may be painful, it has become a habit.Over the years, this kind of practice in my personal life also supports the anxiety, restlessness, anger or fear.I am better able to let oneself become "eye of the storm", and in a more thoughtful way deal with any things, thus reducing the mood swings.

In the end, the attention of mindfulness let us become clear, and have the opportunity to better control our behavior.We created a more energetic and alert the space, let's keep integrity, consistent with our values, and we naturally sympathetic state of being.The combination of these factors increase the potential of our thrive in life, especially in the face of the challenge and depressed.It is important to note that this is to set up our mindfulness small practice in the process of muscle.More importantly, when we find out what is useful to us, we need to remember to be patient and to give yourself a lot of grace.Let those who "mindfulness" on behalf of the involved, look at your skills ability to respond to and resilient growth.In Dr Frankel's wise words:

"Human is self-determination;This means that it is your responsibility."

The resources:
1. Frankl Viktor, e. (1946), the author explores the significance of human.(Boston beacon press reprinted in 2006).

You can be in Sonja a. Dr Olson's book for more informationIn the veterinary industry to create well-being and build resiliencehere.

  1. Gabriel faith Said:

    This one.This one.This!We just discussed in a recent team meeting the neural plasticity.Although life always happen, but we need to remember that we can control our reaction, and can choose to change our response.This is what I want to continue the development of the field, I like to STOP method.Good article!

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