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The more you put in,

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the more you’ll get out of it

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just briefly

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just briefly

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caution

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noun US ​ /ˈkɔ·ʃən/ a warning:

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Some people might have some incorrect notions about mindfulness and, therefore

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notions a belief or idea; therefore поэтому следовательно

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we can be learning mindfulness,

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but not being well taught

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mindfulness is actually about getting more in touch with

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what’s really going on in each moment.

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that sometimes means that we get our attention out of all the busy, stressful thoughts and into the present moment and,

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therefore, means that we relax and calm down and feel good

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Sometimes it means that we get in touch with things that

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we may not have been aware of or have may even been avoiding.

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So our stress could become more obvious to us.

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obvious to us

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anxious

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wanting very much for something to happen. It was getting late, and I was anxious to get home. тревожность

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tension

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anxiety and worry напряженность

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Notice that the mind’s more distractible (отвлекающий)

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than we actually realized.

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Turning lights on

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to something that was happening in the dark, kind of thing.

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we practice a non-judgmental awareness

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awareness (осведомленность)

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Then sometimes that can trigger a real adverse event.

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trigger - to cause something to star; adverse - going against something, or causing harm

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compassionate

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сострадательный, сочувствующий

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we’re under the pump at work, stressed, when we’re facing exams, when we’re sitting in peak hour traffic.

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under the pump - под гнетом работы;

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We start

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to rewire the brain. rewire - to put a new system of electric wires into a building or machine

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default mode

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режим по умолчанию, Lying’s like the default mode in my world. Ложь в моей жизни уже как стандартный режим.

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attention deficit trait

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trait - a characteristic, esp. of a personality:

Patience is one of his best traits.

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when we focus on one thing at a time,

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we actually become less stressed and more productive.

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we’re actually losing time as we switch our attention to something else. And there’s a phenomenon called the attentional blink, which is pretty interesting as well.

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And what that shows is every time we switch our attention from one thing to another, there’s a really brief pause. It’s quite short– between one 0.2 up to half a second– 0.5 of the second. The more stressed we are, the longer the attentional blink is. And during this time, we’re actually not paying attention to anything at all. And we’re losing half a second, half a second, half a second each time we switch our attention.