Category: Benefits of Mindfulness

It is important that you do not underestimate the power that your thoughts have. It is now being stated by many that the power of thought is “all powerful”.

It is impossible to truly be happy, manage or understand happiness without a good foundation of emotional intelligence. Mindfulness requires that you are mindful of your emotions and therefore emotionally aware.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.