Mindful Mondays – Informal Mindfulness
Mindfulness can be practiced anywhere and anytime. All you have to do is bring your complete attention and awareness to your current experiences.
Mindfulness can be practiced anywhere and anytime. All you have to do is bring your complete attention and awareness to your current experiences.
• Do you often feel like you are stuck on auto-pilot? • Do you feel disconnected from your everyday experiences? Mindlessness refers to a lack of awareness to our moment to moment experiences. Think about how many times you have; • Responded to someone reactively, without paying attention to our inner and outer world • Scoffed down your food with little to no awareness of doing so • Driven to work without noticing what is going on around you • Been lost in your thoughts We all fall into the trap of mindlessness, but we can become more mindful of our experiences. Ask yourself – is your Mind Full or are you being Mindful?
Mindfulness has become a bit of a buzz word in recent times - for psychologists, media, and all over the internet. Why? Regular mindfulness can improve well-being by: - reducing stress - reducing anxiety - improving on-the-spot thinking