Stop Your Worrying! Using Mindfulness to Keep You Focused, In the Present, and Kind to Yourself and Others.

Mindset is the attitude you hold or how you feel about something or someone and is key to everything you will set out to do from waking up in the morning and getting your day started right to giving the biggest presentation of your career to a group of colleagues. It is a major component of stress and the only one we exercise a degree of control over as it determines the value we place on the events in our lives that can result in stress.

Imagine waking up in the morning in a bad mood which results in you being short tempered with everyone in your home and this carries over to work. Everyone is affected by your poor mindset with resulting negative effects on their day. Your child goes on to school to score poorly on an important test, your spouse is unfocused at work worrying about the health of your relationship, and your team’s efficiency drops because they are all upset with you. How could this situation have played out a lot differently and everyone end up in a stronger position? Mindfulness may be the answer.

Scientific literature defines mindfulness as a form of present-moment attention and awareness. It is understood to be open, nonjudgmental, friendly, curious, accepting, compassionate, and kind. It is a much more general approach than meditation and is a lot more informal allowing mindfulness to be exercised while performing even daily mundane tasks such as washing the dishes or brushing your teeth. To understand what mindfulness is, you must first understand that your prevailing experience is mindless and that your are sleepwalking through much of your daily lives caught in a wild barrage of thoughts and worries.

Mindfulness involves developing the skill of bringing your attention back to whatever is happening in the present moment and not on your thoughts or worries which can manifest as stress, negative thinking, anger, and self-doubt. Most of us are very hard on ourselves and our internal voice is very critical and hard to please. If you are unforgiving to yourself how likely is it you are also hard on other people? Mindfulness shows you that you have an innate capacity for kindness, you just need to create the right conditions. Practice showing kindness to yourself by focusing on activities that nourish and build you up not deplete or break you down.

The objective of mindfulness is to bring your attention back to whatever is happening in the present moment and not on your thoughts or worries. This is often achieved by selecting a focus, or something that grounds you in the present, and maintaining your attention on this focus to remain in the present and not on your thoughts and worries. One of the most common mindful practices begins with your focus on your breath or breathing. When you bring your awareness to your breathing you are in the present or in the here and now. When you find yourself worrying or focused on negative thoughts or self-talk you can use your breath as an anchor or a place to return your awareness to again and again. You can also practice being mindful while brushing your teeth, washing the dishes or even walking. 

There are health and wellness benefits, and a small possibility of drawbacks, derived from practicing mindfulness. Scientific research has shown benefits in coping with disease and pain, mental health, greater self-awareness, greater acceptance of emotions, and increased empathy. Mindfulness can bring about challenging and difficult experiences as a person explores and makes himself more aware of the problems and experiences that may burden him. 

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