Feeling depressed about your future? Is anxiety keeping you from enjoying your life?
Strong negative emotions can smother the joy and happiness that’s always inside you.
While neither of these feelings can be turned off like a light switch, there is a practice that can change your life in dramatic and positive ways over time.
It’s mindfulness.
[If your feelings of depression or anxiety are more serious, you might benefit from working with a professional who utilizes Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) or Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Both are clinically proven to help those with more severe depression and anxiety.]
How can mindfulness turn your world around? Let’s look at its definition:
Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to and seeing clearly whatever is happening in our lives. It will not eliminate life’s pressures, but it can help us respond to them in a calmer manner that benefits our heart, head, and body.
It helps us recognize and step away from habitual, often unconscious, emotional and physiological reactions to everyday events. It provides us with a scientifically researched approach to cultivating clarity, insight, and understanding. Practicing mindfulness allows us to be fully present in our life and work and improve our quality of life. ~ Mindfulnet.org
In a nutshell, mindfulness is noticing without judging.
In order to notice, you need to pause all the racing thoughts that seem to constantly dance around in your head. It only takes a moment. A breath.
Pausing allows you to be present to whatever is actually happening. It helps you to see the difference between what’s actually happening and the stories you’re creating about what’s happening.
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