Mindfullness Meditation - Cultivating Heightened Awareness Of Simple Daily Tasks

Appreciation Of Simple Daily Tasks And The Results They Achieve

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.

Instead of going through your daily motions on autopilot, take occasional moments to stop and cultivate purposeful awareness of what you are doing and the blessings these actions brings to you or other people's lives.

This is the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one's thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis.
Rather than anxiously wanting to finish an everyday routine task in order to get on with doing something else, take that regular routine and fully experience it like never before, pay attention to every detail of the activity, create an entirely new experience by noticing every aspect of your actions.

Mindfulness has shown some promising results. It is as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a staple of the clinical psychology world (Kocovski, Fleming, Hawley, Huta, & Antony, 2013).
There is also evidence that group mindfulness meditation therapy is as effective as individual CBT (Sundquist et al., 2015).

While mindfulness is innate, it can be cultivated through proven techniques, particularly seated, walking, standing, and moving meditation (it’s also possible lying down but often leads to sleep).

People who meditate are happier, healthier, and less anxious than those who don’t.

Take the activity beyond a routine by aligning yourself with it physically, mentally and spiritually.

As we deal with our world’s increasing complexity and uncertainty it sparks innovation, mindfulness can lead us to effective, resilient, well thought out responses to seemingly uncompromising or irreconcilable problems.

The idea is to get creative and discover new experiences within a familiar routine task or something that you take for granted, take a moment to stop to appreciate how lucky you are.

Cultivate contentment in the moment and escape the persistent believing oneself to be better than the task at hand, concerned chiefly or only with yourself and having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

When we’re mindful, we reduce stress, enhance performance, gain insight and awareness through observing our own mind, and increase our attention to others’ well-being, approaching our experience with warmth and kindness—to ourselves and others.



Quote For Us:

“The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.” 
– Thích Nhất Hạnh