What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is simply… noticing what is happening right now.

Mindfulness helps us sustain our awareness more often and for longer periods. We can begin to practice mindfulness by adding many brief moments of awareness into our lives on a daily basis.

This awareness comes with lots of benefits.

Here are some of the good things mindfulness can bring to your life:

• Mindfulness helps us create space between the emotions we have and the actions we use to respond to them.

• Mindfulness helps us focus.

• Mindfulness can make us feel better emotionally and physically.

If you need studies as proof to practice mindfulness, you’re in luck: thousands of studies have documented the physical and mental health benefits of mindfulness. Benefits such as;

• decreased stress and anxiety,

• improved health,

• better sleep,

• improved focus and awareness,

• better problem solving,

• improved impulse control,

• increased compassion and kindness,

• stronger relationships,

• altruism,

• and even higher life satisfaction.

 - from blissfulkids.com