What is Mindfulness ?
Mindfulness is a type of meditation which brings your awareness to your present thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations without judgment. Mindfulness can help you experience thoughts and emotions as if you were a mere observer.
Mindfulness Benefits
Mindfulness can: help relieve stress, treat heart disease, lower blood pressure, reduce chronic pain, , improve sleep, and alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties.
Mindfulness improves mental health including: depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, couples’ conflicts, anxiety disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Benefits of Mindfulness
9 Attitudes of Mindfulness according to Jon Kabat-Zinn
1. Mindful Attitudes of Non-Judging: Mindfulness is cultivated by assuming the stance of an impartial witness to your own experience.
2. Mindful Attitudes of Patience: Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
3. Mindful Attitudes of Beginners Mind: To see the richness of the present moment, we need to cultivate what has been called a “beginner’s mind,” a mind that is willing to see everything as if for the first time.
4. Mindful Attitudes of Trust: Developing a basic trust in yourself and your feelings is an integral part of meditation training.
5. Mindful Attitudes of Non-Striving: Almost everything we do is for a purpose, to get something or somewhere. Meditation is non-doing.
6. Mindful Attitudes of Acceptance: Acceptance means seeing things as they actually are in the present.
7. Mindful Attitudes of Letting Go: We tend to hold on to certain thoughts. Cultivating the attitude of letting go, or non-attachment is fundamental to the practice of attitudes for mindfulness
8. Mindful Attitudes of Gratitude : So if you increase your positive thoughts, like gratitude, you can increase your emotional and physical sense of well-being.
9. Mindful Attitudes of Generosity: Practice being generous with the feeling of being deserving yourself.