Promotion of Intelligence by Using Mindfulness in Life under the Earthquake Situation

Abstract

This article aims to study the promotion of intelligence by using mindfulness when living in an earthquake situation. It synthesizes recommendations from academic documents and finds that such promotion concerns with wisdom, intelligence or IQ, and the intellectual ability of individuals, including the ability of individuals to learn about things around them, understand quickly and apply them as guidelines in life, as well as the ability to express skills used in various parts of the body, express or solve problems in using reason in life, and solve personal and social issues well. The ability to use mindfulness in life to solve problems in an earthquake situation effectively. The new knowledge from this article is that 1) intellectual ability: learning from listening to news or information about earthquakes all the time, 2) expressive ability: training and simulating real situations regularly, 3) reasoning ability: thinking and analyzing situations that may occur in advance, and 4) ability to use mindfulness to know how to control emotions from panic. The key to promoting intelligence is using mindfulness (Sati) because it creates awareness of the events of the earth on a regular basis, not being careless about the events that will not happen. Therefore, mindfulness is the guideline to live life with wisdom in every situation.