Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a technique you can learn to cultivate in your every day life. Anyone can learn to do this. Mindfulness is the ability to pay attention to the present with kindness. We now know where you put your attention directly shapes your brain. So mindfulness is a superpower!

Mindfulness helps us shift out of painful patterns, such as rumination and resistance, to drop into a better head space. Our capacity to be present with focused attention is the key ingredient for personal change. Mindfulness is then best thought of as a key ingredient to making change within ourselves. By being mindful we learn to use our awareness to direct our attention in a more life enhancing way. We are not focusing on changing our experience such as thoughts, but, to redirect our attention from thoughts to the present so we can learn to relax, thrive and live well even when faced with life's challenges.

Studies have shown that practicing mindfulness, even for just a few weeks, can bring a variety of physical, psychological, and social benefits.

Some of the benefits of mindfulness are:

• Reduced rumination

• Stress reduction.

• Boosts to working memory

• Focus

• Less emotional reactivity

• More cognitive flexibility

• Relationship satisfaction

• Other benefits associated with the brain's middle prefrontal lobe area; enhanced self-insight, morality, intuition and fear modulation