Normally I practise on weekends. How do I sustain mindfulness during the rest of the work week?
When we are working, we concentrate with work. When we are practising, we concentrate on practise. We must not mix up the two. Because during work, we need to concentrate on the task at hand, but in practise, we need to let go. But my work needs intensive concentration, it’s difficult for the mindfulness to catch up. Even concentrating on work is practise. Use your mindfulness to know when there is stress or anger, etc. Note and let go. If you focus on it, it’ll intensify. If you use your mindfulness to know and let go, the anger or stress will disappear. Even knowing that your mindfulness is not strong is a way of improving mindfulness. Have you ever played musical chairs? Imagine that there is only one chair left. Only one person/thing can occupy that seat. Therefore, if mindfulness is on the chair, anger cannot occupy it. However, if mindfulness is weak, anger or stress can then push mindfulness off the chair and take over instead.
