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Are you guilty of rushing out of the house every morning without ever thinking about how you’d like to see the day unfold? In no time, some situation or person rubs you the wrong way and your automatic reaction is rage, impatience, or frustration. You didn’t plan to respond this way, it just happened. That’s the problem, isn’t it?
The benefits of meditation are wide and far-reaching and can help improve your quality of life, and the state of your mind, body, and spirit.
While it’s important to nurture your body and mind, it’s equally important that you make time to nurture your spirit. They all connect, and they feed into your health and wholeness. You can’t achieve optimal health unless you balance all three of these areas.
Mindfulness is a word that you might have been hearing more often in your daily conversations. At first you may think that you understand what the other person is talking about when they use that word, but the longer the conversation continues, the more you start to doubt yourself. You begin asking the question, “What is mindfulness?”
Mindfulness exercises are meant to help you practice being engaged in the moment. Take these and customize them to fit your life and needs. Use them as inspiration to find what works best for you. And pick only those that make sense and feel right for you.
Many people who practice mindfulness do so because they have heard that it reduces feelings of stress and anxiety. The idea, however, is that mindfulness practices will make you calmer even when you aren’t doing the practices.
