How Mindfulness helps a congressman in Washington stay calm
Moris Beracha.- Tim Ryan, Representative for Ohio’s congressional district, has become one of the greatest advocates of practicing Mindfulness. The politician says that mindfulness can have benefits for veterans, schoolchildren and average Americans. Ryan indicates that the ordinary citizen is living under a lot of stress and anxiety and that the practice of Mindfulness is paying attention to the 'present moment'. "While your mind may try to go to the past or the future, you try to discipline your mind to increase your awareness of that present moment, what’s going on around you and, but also, what’s going on inside you," said the congressman. "So you can better understand your own habits, your own emotional states," Ryan said. Stress reduction, increase focus, the boost of the immune system and better decision making are some of the benefits mentioned by Ryan. In 2008, Tim Ryan's signed up for a mindfulness retreat to get a break from...