What is Mindfulness?

 Are you supposed to clear your mind, or focus on one thing? Here's the Mindful definition of Mindfulness.

Mindfulness. It’s a pretty straightforward word. It suggests that the mind is fully attending to what’s happening, to what you’re doing, to the space you’re moving through. That might seem trivial, except for the annoying fact that we so often veer from the matter at hand. Our mind takes flight, we lose touch with our body, and pretty soon we’re engrossed in obsessive thoughts about something that just happened or fretting about the future. And that makes us anxious.

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.

Yet no matter how far we drift away, mindfulness is right there to snap us back to where we are and what we’re doing and feeling. If you want to know what mindfulness is, it’s best to try it for a while. Since it’s hard to nail down in words, you will find slight variations in the meaning in books, websites, audio, and video.

The Definition of Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.

Mindfulness is a quality that every human being already possesses, it’s not something you have to conjure up, you just have to learn how to access it.

The Types of Mindfulness Practice

While mindfulness is innate, it can be cultivated through proven techniques. Here are some examples:

1. Seated, walking, standing, and moving meditation (it’s also possible lying down but often leads to sleep);
2. Short pauses we insert into everyday life;
3. Merging meditation practice with other activities, such as yoga or sports.

The Benefits of Mindfulness Practice:

When we meditate it doesn’t help to fixate on the benefits, but rather to just do the practice, and yet there are benefits or no one would do it.

When we’re mindful, we reduce stress, enhance performance, gain insight and awareness through observing our own mind, and increase our attention to others’ well-being.

Mindfulness meditation gives us a time in our lives when we can suspend judgment and unleash our natural curiosity about the workings of the mind, approaching our experience with warmth and kindness—to ourselves and others.

How Mindfulness Changes Your Life

 

Mindfulness gives us the skills we need to create the life we want and the world we dream of. In today's fast-paced society, we can turn to mindfulness as way to not just cope, but really thrive in all aspects of our lives.

·         How Mindfulness Changes Your Life

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Reduce Stress

Calm your mind and relax more easily so you can ride the waves of life with curiosity, acceptance, and joy.

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Stay Healthy

Reduce pain and inflammation, build a stronger immune system, lower blood pressure, recover faster, and sleep better.

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Improve Relationships

Mindfulness helps us shed our defenses and assumptions so we can connect to others with spaciousness and heart

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Increase Performance

Focus, attention, memory, body awareness, and other critical skills all improve with mindfulness

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Live Longer

Gene expression can change with regular practice—telomeres grow stronger and longer, correlating with an increased lifespan

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Awaken and Expand

Connect more consciously with your full self and greatest callings, tapping into a limitless space of loving awareness