Mindfulness is a form of meditative practice that elevates present-moment awareness.
Ludwig & Kabat-Zinn, 2008
If you can build muscle, you can build a mindset.
Jay Shetty
Combining the art of mindfulness and mindset is powerful. Not only do mindful practices offer instant mood and energy-boosting benefits, but they better your health, too. Mindfulness offers profound benefits from improved sleep, reduced stress and anxiety, and lower blood pressure. It can even help you manage pain.
If you put your mind to it, you can achieve a mindful mindset and live with more awareness, abundance, and good health.
A few lifestyle changes can help with this.
Note: You do need to stay consistent and prioritize your needs. As studies prove, it takes 66 to form a habit. If you continue practicing mindfulness and adjusting your mindset, you can start to live in the present moment and maintain a positive outlook on life.
The world is more chaotic than ever. A growing population, daily tech updates, and endless traffic prove it.
It’s hard to escape the chaos. Even if you arrive home after a busy day and feel less chaotic, your devices and endless to-do list might minimize how relaxing your downtime should be.
First, you need to recognize the chaos. If you do this, you might find lucky escape routes and avoid the overwhelming chaos that can cause.
For example, if you commute to work daily and find yourself rushing out the door with not a moment to think, you will set yourself for a chaotic day. Your day could look different if you make time for self-care, a slow pace, and mindfulness.
Waking up a bit earlier can allow you to pursue mindfulness, which can help you prepare for the day ahead. You could make time for yoga, meditation, a slow breakfast, or journaling. One or two mindful moments in the morning can change the entire outlook of your day.
If you schedule mindfulness in your diary, you can have time for it daily. If you leave it out, you might forget about it or think it’s fine to pursue it the following day.
The most successful, mindful people create balanced routines. They allow themselves time to meditate, walk, hit the gym, or do anything that helps them improve their mindset and well-being. Even taking 10 minutes during the day to rest is wise. Rest is productive, and you all must make more time for it.
If you do the same, you can be successful and mindful, too.
The more often you practice mindfulness, the more it will transform your life and mindset. It will become second nature to you to take five minutes in the morning to journal and a few minutes in the evening to do your skincare.
When you schedule your self-care and mindfulness time, you will be guaranteed not to miss it. Make self-care and mindfulness a habit. It might only take 66 days or less to become a daily habit.
Learning to repel the chaos means slowing down, stopping, and being mindful of your surroundings.
When you can understand the chaos in your life, you can repel the chaos rather well in time. You can understand when something is chaotic and that you need to step away.
Stepping away from chaos is powerful and beneficial. You will learn how to practice self-love and do what’s right for you. Avoiding chaos and finding your calm will result in peace and positivity.
You will soon acknowledge when you need to slow down, why you need to slow down, and how great you feel when you slow down. The more you avoid chaos in your life, the more mindful, self-aware, present, and positive you will be.
If life is busy during the week, take time at the weekend to live a slower-paced lifestyle. It might feel almost impossible to slow down during the week, so be sure to schedule those mindful moments (even if it is just five minutes).
When you slow down at the weekend, it gives you a chance to live in the present for longer. You can adopt a slower approach and make sure that true, slow, and mindful living is a good chunk of your week.
The more you practice the art of slow living, the easier it might feel during the week. It might become easier to understand the chaos and decide to repel it.
Slow living = doing everything at the right speed.
Instead of gulping down your coffee in three long sips, take your time, appreciate the smell, and assess the flavor.
Instead of rushing a walk in nature because you feel you need to be back to complete the house chores, schedule a longer time where you can walk the same route, but slower. Look up and around you. You will notice small pleasures that you might not notice when you’re in a rush – the bird song, the slow-paced animals, and the laughter of the children in the neighborhood.
Slow down, do less, and prioritize spending time on things that matter the most to you.