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What is Mindfulness And What Does It Mean to You?
Our ability and willingness to focus on just one thing at any one given moment in time is mindfulness. In today’s world, we often work longer hours and pack more into every day. As a result, we end up juggling different activities at the same time, all in order to get those ‘To-Do’ Lists done! Sometimes we need to get things done, and the most productive way is doing more than one thing at a time. However, when a person is multi-tasking they’re actually switching simultaneously between tasks, and research indicate that this reduces productivity by up to 40%. This habit can spill over automatically into almost everything we do. Living this way we often fail to notice the beauty of life, fail to hear what our bodies are telling us and we all too often become stuck in mechanical conditioned ways of thinking and living that may be harmful to ourselves or others. Becoming more mindfully aware is about developing our ability and willingness to focus on just one thing at any one given moment in time. This means if you are in nature, rather than allowing your mind to wander off, simply focus on being in the nature and what’s going on in your surrounding at that moment.Becoming more mindfully aware is about developing gratitude and appreciation of the present moment. Often if we’re not doing more than one thing at a time, we may think that we’re not working hard enough. However. Mindfulness is not about getting rid of your thoughts and its not a relaxation technique, nor is it a spiritual practice, mindfulness is simply being engaged in the present moment, be fully aware of what is happening now.

How can Mindfulness help

Mindfulness improves mental health
Neuroscience studies show it literally rewires the brain and thickens the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus which are key areas for learning and functioning including: In recent years, psychotherapists have turned to mindfulness meditation as an important element in the treatment of a number of problems,
– depression
– substance abuse
– eating disorders
– couples’ conflicts
– anxiety disorders
– obsessive-compulsive disorder

Some experts believe that mindfulness works, in part, by helping people to accept their experiences—including painful emotions—rather than react to them with aversion and avoidance. It’s become increasingly common for mindfulness meditation to be combined with psychotherapy, especially cognitive behavioral therapy. This development makes good sense, since both meditation and cognitive behavioral therapy share the common goal of helping people
gain perspective on irrational and self-defeating thoughts.

Mindfulness improves over all well being
-Increasing your capacity for mindfulness supports many attitudes that contribute to a satisfied life.

-Being mindful makes it easier to savor the pleasures in life as they occur, helps you become fully engaged in activities, and creates a greater capacity to deal with adverse events.

-By focusing on the here and now, many people who practice mindfulness find that they are less likely to get caught up in worries about the future or regrets over the past, are less preoccupied with concerns about success and self-esteem, and are better able to form deep connections with others.

Mindfulness improves physical health
If greater well-being isn’t enough of an incentive, scientists have discovered the benefits of mindfulness techniques help improve physical health in a number of ways. Mindfulness can:
– help relieve stress
– treat heart disease
– lower blood pressure
– reduce chronic pain
– improve sleep
– alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties

Hope this blog and video helped. Start slow, start small, be consistent. That’s the key.

This moment is all that we have.

Love and Health,
Uma
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