I am living a peaceful and mindful life for a long time now. What I have learned and achieved would be hard to get or formed if I haven’t followed and practiced mindfulness.
Mindfulness living helps me in many ways. One of the best quality that I have learned in my life would be to smile when everything is falling.
Mindfulness can give you various kinds of benefits in your day-to-day life, out of which some are science-backed and some are divine.
Here are 20 benefits of mindfulness
Increase Self-Control: What makes us good communicator or peaceful in life. It would be our self-control. Self-control helps us in identifying when and where we need to react and when it’s better to ignore. Self-control helps us in controlling the urge of temptation. It reduces the chances of getting into any arguments as well.
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Tolerance gives you the ability to handle people peacefully. It gives you the ability to digest their opinion, no matter if it’s falling into your terms or not.
Increase Concentration Power: In this fast forward and polluted world, it becomes hard for people to concentrate well in their work, as they build up a lot of stress around themselves. Mindfulness is the tool that helps us into this problem, mindfulness living increases the ability to concentrate well.
Increase Clarity in Your Thoughts: Thoughts are the base of our life. Throughout the day what we think we gradually become that person. Mindfulness Living helps you in clarifying your thoughts. It helps you to omit all unnecessary junks from your head. In easy words, it’s like rewriting a CD again.
Increase Self-Worth: Mindfulness Living helps you in increasing your self-confidence and self-believe. As a result, you become more comfortable with yourself, irrespective of your looks and body. It promotes you do work more
For instance, children possessing caring, supervising and disciplinary parents are more likely to develop self-control, whereas children possessing abusive and neglectful parents are less likely to develop self-control and tend to become like their parents (O’Grady 2014, 118). Thus, this theory argues that the foundation of self-control lies on
The old saying, “An apple a day will keep the Doctor away,” may pertain to more than just ones body. Just like an apple is healthy for ones body, using ones mind is healthy for the overall well-being of oneself and everyone else around. An individual has the choice on what to “feed” their mind just like they have the decision on what to feed their body. Benjamin Franklin did not fail to utilize his mind wisely during the eighteenth century. Franklin used his mind to contribute and innovate to others and the things around him because for many, an underused mind and an overused knife are the same — dull.
The importance of self-control is very significant because it facilitates success, decreases stress and helps maintain equilibrium. In Merriam-Webster’s dictionary self-control is defined as restraint exercised over one’s own impulses, emotions, or desires. To have self control means a person can restrain him/herself in difficult situations. This means not yelling at a person when frustrated with them. The opposite of self-control is to lose control of him/herself in difficult situations.
Non judgment means letting go of opinions, thoughts: having the ability to corral a wandering mind, not to entirely stop our minds from wandering. According to research conducted by Matthew Killingsworth, “people’s minds wander nearly half the time... [which] appears to contribute to people being less happy” (FCL xxxiii). That being proved, our minds are meant to wander; there is no way to completely halt the brain in order to meditate, though “mindfulness is a skill that can be developed through practice” (FCL xxxiii). This is where non judgment comes in, when you find yourself becoming distracted and your thoughts going elsewhere, mindfulness asks that you be gentle with yourself in redirecting your thoughts back to the object of awareness.
In a world struggling with violence and oppression from police brutality to women’s rights it’s nice to be reminded that there is still good in this world. Holy buildings including mosques, temples, churches, and synagogues are sanctuaries for humans. Each building houses a different religion. Buddhists attend temples, Christians go to church, Muslims attend mosques, and Jewish people go to synagogues. Every religion is looking for peace and kindness, however, Buddhism is different because they look within and not towards God for help.
In our generation with busy schedules and the high influence and use of technology the average attention span of a human is 8 seconds. We are constantly getting distracted by our own thoughts or external influences. We walk outside and we get lost in our thoughts rather than enjoying the weather or taking notice of the things we pass by. Many people tend to choose to live that way though, in a way where they purposefully do not pay attention “Drifting through life on a cushioned surge of impulses is but one of many strategies of forgetting” (58). They want to pick and choose what they remember, they want to ignore the bad and only recognize the good.
Mindfulness Process Journal 1 Practicing mindfulness has been an important part of my life since I have decided to become a Buddhist. I often heard that mindfulness or meditation although is taught in other cultures, only a portion of mindfulness was emphasized in the practice of mindfulness. One of the reasons I aim to complete this course is to learn about the vocabulary used when teaching mindfulness. I was thrilled by the detailed concepts and the choice of words used to describe mindfulness. In particular, I was amazed by the introduction of mental factors, Four Noble Truths, and the Noble Eightfold path in the concept of mindfulness.
A person should focus on themselves rather than focusing just on your
Jon Kabat-Zinn’s mindfulness lessons are simply gold. It helps us in so many ways. I learned a lot of things from his teachings. His words are well-researched and practical in its nature. You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Try not to be reluctant to change places or time of meditation if that specific place or time is not working for you. How meditation is going to help you, we learn. The advantages of meditation are conceivable on the grounds that meditation influences the parts of your mind that manage mental conditions, for example, a state of mind, tension, stress, sorrow, stress, and so on. A human typically gets depressed when they
During meditation practise, I found that frequent thoughts kept reoccurring such thoughts about upcoming deadlines or other commitments, which sometimes led me to stop meditating altogether. This was especially made difficult by the number of individuals in the session and how discomforting I felt sitting still for long periods of time. Bamber and Schneider (2016) suggests that a core feature of mindfulness is non-judgemental awareness. In mindfulness, this involves paying direct attention to the present moment and allowing thoughts to pass, without reacting to them (Shipherd & Fordiani, 2015).
Mindfulness is focusing on one thing. It is becoming focused, and helping reduce stress and anxiety. It’s the state of being aware of something. Studies on children in grades first, through college have had positive results after practicing mindfulness for at least five minutes a day for a month. Schools should offer free mindfulness courses.
As we learn and practice mindfulness, we will become more aware, and others around us are likely to find us as helpful, patient, open-hearted, non-judgmental and compassionate human being. Being more mindful and aware will ultimately help us to live and enjoy our life to the full! Need we desire more? Mindfulness today, is one of the most talked about developments in human psychology, and innumerable researches are being undertaken across the globe to understand its positive effects and implications.
Over the course of this winter quarter, I have learned in my class of Psychology of Wellness how to incorporate mindfulness into my daily life. The definition of mindfulness is considered an art. In the book of the Fully Present, the authors Susan Smalley and Diana Winston transmitted their wisdom on how to learn, practice and cultivate this art. According to the mentioned authors, they defined mindfulness as “the art of observing your physical, emotional, and mental experiences with deliberate, open, and curious attention” (2010, p.78). This definition shared by the authors is simple, but it communicates what are the characteristics that an individual needs to consider when it comes to being mindful.
Emotional self-regulation operates through three subprincile: the self-monitoring, judgment of one’s behavior, and affective self-reaction (Bandura n.d., p. 248). Self-monitoring includes the awareness of oneself to his/her action, the judgement of behavior is observing the pattern toward doing something to affect it, and the affective self-reaction includes the mechanisms that regulate the courses of actions (Bandura n.d., p.