The hours you are awake should be used to immerse yourself in being mindful. After a full day of living that lifestyle, you go to sleep, and the subconscious mind works in the background to help increase your mindfulness the next day. You have to feed it positive messages and actions, and the subconscious mind knows you want more of the same in the days to come.
Being mindful can be broken down into its main components and the actions you can take on those main ideas. In many ways, it is like a mind map. Here are a few examples:
- Mindful Movement Ideas-Yoga-Tai Chi-Walking in the Forest
- Mental Mindfulness-Visualizing-Meditation
- Creative Mindful Ideas-Journaling-Classical Music
- Ritual Mindfulness-Silent Prayer-Contemplation In A Personal Space
When making mindfulness your daily routine, it brings you to a greater awareness of your inner self and surroundings. Knowing and loving yourself allows you to transfer love and kindness to others. In this hectic world, we are losing a connection to ourselves, others, and the world around us. Daily mindfulness is your way of strengthening all those connections and the pathway to a happy life.
People are unique individuals. This means that how some people practice mindfulness may not work for others. It becomes an experiment, where you test out a variety of mindfulness exercises or practices and then take note of which ones benefit you the most. We talked about ritual movement and mindful movements as a few of the main branches in the list. To get started with mindfulness, try one or all of the following basic mindful practices and then build up from there.
- Yoga is considered to be an excellent choice for physical health, and the mental health benefits are also outstanding. When you feel better physically, it reduces stress, depression, and anxiety. There are many yoga styles, including mindful yoga, where you are focusing less on the physical aspect and putting it more on the overall awareness of self. There are four poses you can try in Mindful yoga that will start you on your journey. They are Mountain Pose-Tree Pose-Low Lunge-Reclining Bound Angle Pose.
- Mindful writing will help you to move thoughts from your brain to paper. It is helpful to do it right after a meditation session. In mindful writing, you can close your eyes for a moment and let thoughts announce themselves.
Then open your eyes and just let the words flow onto the paper. There is no structure in this, instead, you just use free flow and see where it takes you. Write a sentence or two, then stop to breathe in deeply and exhale. Feel the warmth in your body and let gratitude and love enter when you breathe. Start writing again for a few moments and then take a break and breathe. While you are doing your writing and breathing, you will enter a new mediative state that gives you peace and happiness. Try mindful writing every day at the same time. - The practice of daily mindful meditation is one of the most basic ways to add mindfulness to your day. Meditation can be done for 5 minutes or 30 if you prefer. As with mindful writing, try to do it at the same time of day and make sure to have a quiet space.
Mindful meditation has many health benefits, such as relieving stress, depression, anxiety, and sleeping issues, for starters. It is also highly recommended to teach your children mindful mediation due to it being easy and excellent for calming them in stressful situations.
Mindful meditation has very few requirements. You need a comfortable place to sit by yourself. Close your eyes and begin to breathe. Focus on the air coming in and believe it has healing powers. Give your thought only to the air entering your lungs and then being slowly expelled.
Mindful meditation means being in the moment and not judging yourself or any extra thoughts that enter your mind. When this happens, acknowledge them and let them flow out while returning to focus on your breathing.
