Name: マインドフルネス（The Power of Mindfulness: What You Practice Grows Stronger | Shauna Shapiro | TEDxWashingtonSquare）
Uploaded: 2021-03-27T16:09:01.000Z
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Translator: Peter van de Ven Reviewer: Mile Živković

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If in rush-hour traffic, you can remain perfectly calm;

if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places

if you can love everyone around you unconditionally;

and if you can always find contentment just where you are,

We hold ourselves to these unrealistic standards of perfection,

and then we judge ourselves when we don't live up to them.

All of us have the capacity to change, to learn, and to grow,

As a professor and scientist, I study how people change,

and one of the most effective vehicles I've found is: mindfulness.

My own journey into mindfulness was unexpected.

When I was 17, I had spinal fusion surgery,

to lying in a hospital bed, unable to walk.

During the many months of rehabilitation,

I tried to figure out how to live in this body

but worse was the fear and the loneliness,

and I simply didn't have the tools to cope.

So I began searching for something that could help,

and eventually, this search led me to a monastery in Thailand

the monks didn't speak much English and I didn't speak any Thai,

but I understood mindfulness had something to do

with paying attention in the present moment.

My only instruction was to feel the breath going in and out of my nose.

One breath, two breaths, it wandered again,

sucked into the past or lost in the future,

and no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't stay present.

This was frustrating because I thought meditation was supposed to feel like this,

I've been speaking for about three minutes;

the mind wanders, on average, 47 percent of the time.

That's almost half of our lives that we're missing,

is simply learning to train the mind in how to be here,

Allow your eyes to close, and just feel your feet on the floor.

Feeling the breath as it naturally flows in and out of the body.

taking a deeper breath, in and out, allowing your eyes to open.

back at the monastery, I was trying hard to do just this,

But no matter how hard I tried, my mind kept wandering off.

And at this point, I really started to judge myself:

"What is wrong with you? You're terrible at this."

And then not only was I judging myself, I started judging everyone,

"Why are they just sitting here?  Shouldn't they be doing something?"

Thankfully, a monk from London arrived, who spoke English,

and as I shared with him my struggles, he looked at me and said,

"Oh dear, you're not practicing mindfulness,

you're practicing judgment, impatience, frustration."

And then he said five words that have never left me:

Our repeated experiences shape our brain.

We can actually sculpt and strengthen our synaptic connections,

For example, in the famous study of London taxi drivers,

the visual spatial mapping part of the brain is bigger, stronger.

They've been practicing navigating the 25,000 streets of London all day long.

When you look at the brains of meditators,

the areas related to attention, learning, compassion,

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