Mindfulness will change your life?

Mindfulness is a practice that has gained a lot of popularity in recent years.  Mindfulness therapies came about in the 1970s but the origins of mindfulness and meditation go back thousands of years.  This fact alone should hopefully prove the worth of mindfulness and its lasting impact on human beings.  Mindfulness can make you extra in tune with your mind/body connection.  When we are truly mindful, we observe our thoughts and feelings rather than being overwhelmed by them after the fact.  One description of mindfulness describes it as standing in a cave that has a waterfall at the opening.  Mindfulness is like standing in that cave observing the water falling rather than being soaked by the waterfall.

Mindfulness can also change your life in that it can help you be more present in your day today.  By being more connected with your mind and body, you can be more present in the seconds of your day to day rather than life seeming like it is moving too fast.  Not only will that help you to live your life day by day, but it can also greatly impact your mental and physical health.  For example, if you are more present in your mind and body connection you can see a difference in exercise.  People that are more mindful are able to recognize when their bodies are not actually tired and keep going when their minds might tell them that they need to stop.  Mindfulness helps to not engage in a specific thought or feeling immediately and more to observe it before deciding if you want to engage and accept it or not.

By achieving such an improved mind and body connection, people that are mindful are able to see improvements in their relationships, friendships, careers, hobbies, among other things.  Someone that is mindful can more easily navigate the complexities in those areas of life whereas someone that is not as mindful might be more destructive.  Overall, mindfulness is such a positive practice that if someone can be consistent with it can greatly change their life.  The key is consistency though and to make sure for a while that you are practicing mindfulness daily, even if just for five minutes.