Mindfulness and Energy Psychology

For many individuals life is a source of stress, emptiness and creeping anxiety. Many bodies are carried around with poor awareness by minds constantly busy in the past or in the future, searching for solutions outside ourselves, confusing means with ends. The illusion of owning things when we don't even own ourselves. Things are a mean and not an end. A good question we should ask ourselves more often is "What's the meaning in what I do, why do I want this?" And because often we don't have an answer to this question, we  numb ourselves with  more objects and labels in the hope of feeling a  meaningful  connection with life. 
But what is it that really helps us in finding  peace and fulfilment in our existence? It is the courage to pause in this frantic world and dig out the gold from our life as it is now. Practicing the awareness of breath and body, fully experiencing emotions and noticing what thoughts we are clinging on to and bravely letting go of them. In that space we sit alone and it is there that we may find what we are looking for.
By practicing mindfulness day by day with gratitude and compassion we gain the gift of presence which is reflected in our body posture and body language. When we are able to be present to ourselves so we will be to others.

Attachments are a part of being human. We are born with a survival instinct and we learn to fulfil our needs for safety, love, recognition and belonging. We learn what makes us feel good and we strive to achieve it: success, money, popularity, career and happy relationships. We are taught that if we really have motivation and commitment to what we want to achieve we can be successful. And here is where I believe the confusion and the self-exhaustion starts. The  search for self-fulfilment becomes a  search for external objects and along the way we forget who we are. Our attachments become what we believe we are or what we believe we are not. Our job title,  bank account and  car give us a sense of being but we deep down know it is not true, so we live our lives stressed, anxious and fearful. Those objects give us freedom but they also own our freedom. Nobody has taught us a good skill to practice regularly: letting go of our attachments to ideas or things  for a few minutes a day and mindfully sit with ourselves, feel our breath and appreciate our life as it is now. And , although, it may sound scary or unproductive, it is actually, what make us a better person. Own your inner freedom, know who you are now.