Being Mindful Of Mindfulness
Mindfulness is achieving a mental state that focuses one’s awareness on the present moment, while accepting feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations; it is used as a therapeutic technique. Many health benefits can emerge from mindfulness if practiced consistently.
The benefits of mindfulness:
- Stress reduction (increases positive affect and decreases anxiety and negative affect)
- Reduced rumination (also improves working memory capacity and attention)
- Improved focus (helps you suppress distracting information)
- Less emotional reactivity (helps you disengage from emotionally upsetting situations)
- Improved cognitive flexibility (helps you recover faster after being negatively provoked as well as improves self-observation)
- Improved relationships (helps you respond better to relationship stress and communicate your emotions more effectively)
- Enhanced self-insight, intuition and morality
- Improved immune function
- Increased information processing speed
- Promotes empathy towards others
- Enhanced self-compassion (being nonjudgmental and non-reacting)
- Improved counseling skills
- Improved social connectedness and emotional intelligence
- Helps decrease symptoms of PTSD
Find a quiet place in a comfortable environment and close your eyes. Allow all thoughts to flow and become nonjudgmental, no matter how negative and uncomfortable the thoughts are. Each time you perform mindfulness, attempt to go for a little longer; this will build your stamina and allow you to reap more benefits in the long run!
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