I practice mindfulness, especially with the Pomodoro Technique (working for 25 minutes and resting for 5 minutes in mindfulness). I practice mindfulness to be able to rest well during breaks and return to work better. But I have difficulties with mindfulness because I keep ruminating.
I tried using the technique of labeling emotions, and it helped a little at first. But now it’s like saying “I’m irritated” and detailing the feeling, but it seems to only make me ruminate more: “Why should I be irritated?” “Should I be less irritated?” “How can I be less irritated?”
Considering my difficulty with mindfulness and the technique of labeling emotions, I speculate that a considerable reason for my mind ruminating is because it doesn’t know if it’s worth the effort to solve the problem.
You know? When a system doesn’t have a stopping criterion, it doesn’t know if it’s worth solving now, too complex for the moment, or if it has already solved enough to test? It’s as if my mind doesn’t know whether it’s worth investing in solving it or if it’s better to file it away for now.
So, I speculate that asking myself some questions, a pre-meditation, like the 5 minutes at the end of a 25-minute Pomodoro, would allow me to align myself enough to improve my mindfulness practice; perhaps my mind would stop searching for solutions for a moment.
Could I set up experiments and measure how much a mindfullness to focus analising physical EEG waves?Where does my reasoning break down? Has anyone tried something like this?
I practice mindfulness, especially with the Pomodoro Technique (working for 25 minutes and resting for 5 minutes in mindfulness). I practice mindfulness to be able to rest well during breaks and return to work better. But I have difficulties with mindfulness because I keep ruminating.
I tried using the technique of labeling emotions, and it helped a little at first. But now it’s like saying “I’m irritated” and detailing the feeling, but it seems to only make me ruminate more: “Why should I be irritated?” “Should I be less irritated?” “How can I be less irritated?”
Considering my difficulty with mindfulness and the technique of labeling emotions, I speculate that a considerable reason for my mind ruminating is because it doesn’t know if it’s worth the effort to solve the problem.
You know? When a system doesn’t have a stopping criterion, it doesn’t know if it’s worth solving now, too complex for the moment, or if it has already solved enough to test? It’s as if my mind doesn’t know whether it’s worth investing in solving it or if it’s better to file it away for now.
So, I speculate that asking myself some questions, a pre-meditation, like the 5 minutes at the end of a 25-minute Pomodoro, would allow me to align myself enough to improve my mindfulness practice; perhaps my mind would stop searching for solutions for a moment.
Could I set up experiments and measure how much a mindfullness to focus analising physical EEG waves?Where does my reasoning break down? Has anyone tried something like this?