A few minutes of mindful meditation a day can help with your general health and well being. There is a quickly growing body of evidence that shows several measureable benefits of meditation including, higher brain functioning, increased immune function, lowered blood pressure and lowered heart rate.
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Almost everything we do requires a level of of focus and attention of some kind from reading, writing, driving or even just watching the TV. In an age of the internet, constantly pinging mobile phones and the multi tasking lives we live now, it seems to be coming at the expense of our attention spans.
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You are making decisions all day every day whether they are conscious decisions or unconscious decisions. Even deciding to make no decision is a decision.
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As Mindfulness improves emotional regulation the symptoms of stress can be alleviated which in turn leads to a general better mood that also helps combat stressful situations and periods in your life.
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Imagine your mind is like an ocean, sometimes it’s a rough stormy time and at others the ocean is flat and calm. It doesn’t matter what you are doing thoughts pass through your mind the weather at the ocean’s surface changes reflecting your current thoughts.
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To realise the benefits of mindfulness it is important that you turn your mindfulness activities into habits. Habits are easy to do and hard to break because you have created strong neural pathways for them.
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As one of the greatest of all emotions, gratitude can be cultivated easily and studies are starting to show that gratitude improves well-being. Your heart will open when you are aware and grateful for what you do actually have instead of what you don’t.
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One of the most important attitudes to bring to your mindfulness is kindness. You can be more attentive, present and compassionate but the experience of it can be cold and hard, or you can apply some kindness to it to make it more kind, warm, caring and gentle.
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True compassion isn’t based upon attachments or desires. To show compassion is to understand and recognise that you have your own limitations and flaws as does everyone else and to forgive yourself and others for their mistakes, negative thoughts and fears.
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We all have the temptation to judge any experience as either good or bad because we all like feeling happiness and none of us like feeling sadness. Often your judgements are more based upon past experiences and less on what you are actually experiencing in this moment.
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