How Practising Mindfulness Can help you feel Happier and Calmer

How Practising Mindfulness Can help you feel Happier and Calmer Mindfulness Happier

Mindfulness is a modern take on meditation related practices. Its purpose is to help you connect to the present moment and create awareness of what is right now, instead of allowing the mind to drift to past or future. Practising mindfulness is a useful technique in conjunction with other therapies.

It is a simple practice, but not always easy to do because we tend to run on auto pilot.

It can help with:

  • Depression
  • PTSD
  • Anxiety / High Stress
  • Developing patience
  • Accepting what is
  • Trauma, Body image, OCD
  • Going through a crisis
  • Anorexia, Eating disorders
  • Substance or alcohol abuse
  • Conflict
  • Relationship problems
  • Grief and loss
  • Not hooking into your negative, unhealthy or painful thoughts and  feelings.
  • General wellbeing
  • Feeling happier
  • Attention/ Focus/ Concentration
  • Improved mood
  • Helping you pause before you react
  • Feeling calmer, more at peace and more content

You can start practising mindfulness today by including it in your daily habits.

3 tips for practising mindfulness when you are a busy bee:

1. Start practising mindful eating. Spend time eating lunch outdoors and focus your attention on the sounds and senses, what you can see and hear. Using all of your senses of taste, smell, touch which brings you into the moment.

2. Walking, exercising doing yoga, pilates, tai chi are good ways to practice mindfulness.

3. Mindful breathing: Taking a few deep breaths throughout the day can help you focus on the present eg: think of people who go for a cigarette break. It is this act of taking long deep breaths, pausing and looking around which brings them to focus on the present moment, their senses, their surroundings and creates a feeling of calm.