Clean Your Glasses Mindfully and Be Calmer

Calmer brings health and clarity

Looking to be calmer in our day to day tasks is a great objective, because it can really make us much more healthier.

Also, it can have decisive impact on our path to achieve our goals, it can give you more strength and help you overcome the difficulties you find.

“Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that decides to walk into your heart.”

- Geri Larkin.

“Your strength is in your calmness, in the clarity of your mind. Strength comes from putting the negative aside without reacting. Win in calmness, in consciousness, in balance.”

- Yogi Amrit Desai

Can glasses help?

For those who wear glasses (full time, or just to work on the computer or to read), cleaning the glasses is a daily, frequent, and not important activity.

It’s something we do maybe 4 times a day. That is, more than 20 times a week, more than 100 times a month, more than 1.000 times a year. So, much time wasted, isn’t it?

What if it doesn’t have to be this way?

“When you have inner calmness then you automatically succeed in what you do. The more silent you are from inside, your thoughts and actions become more powerful.”

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Cleaning the glasses in a mindful way

What if we could transform every moment we clean the glasses into a moment to be calmer?

We would gain hundreds of moments of calm! Is worth a try, yes?

Let’s do a simple experiment, let’s try to transform this moment without any importance into a moment of relaxation.

Right now, we are not going to do anything else at the same time, nor look at anything else.

We interrupt everything we are doing, we are just going to concentrate on this task of cleaning the glasses.

We put the glasses down on the table.

We pick up the cleaning cloth or any other material we usually use to clean the glasses.

We try to focus on the characteristics of the cleaning cloth we are using:

• Is it light or heavy?
• Is it soft or rough?
• Is it hot or cold?
• How does it feel in our hands when we hold it?

Next, we pick up the glasses with the other hand and start cleaning it:

• Our gaze is focused on the glasses and on the cloth
• We clean one of the lenses, slowly, without haste
• With our fingers, we feel the lens in the middle of the cloth
• We feel how smooth the lens is, we see how transparent it is
• Then we do the same with the other lens, also slowly, very slowly

The eyeglasses are now clean, and we finish our exercise:

• We slowly fold the cloth we used to clean it, feeling its texture and weight again, and put that cloth away.
• Slowly, we pick up the glasses to put on our faces.
• We look through the glasses and observe how everything looks more sharper and clearer now, and that change gives us a positive feeling.
• We can now get back to what we were doing before, hopefully feeling our mind more quiet.

Balance

Did it work for you? Do you feel calmer than before?

If the answer is yes, it means we can continue this practice and gain new moments of calm in our daily lives and become wiser.

“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.”

- James Allen.