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Increase Your Wellness with Basic Mindfulness Techniques
Nikki and Anne Heart ♥ July 23, 2024
- Mindfulness has its roots in the Buddhist culture
- It primarily refers to living in the present moment
- The basis of mindfulness is meditation
- The aim is to increase your awareness
Where is Mindfulness Used
- Recently, mindfulness has become available in schools, workplaces and hospitals
- Many group community programs are available
- Individuals practice mindfulness techniques in their home and elsewhere as part of their self-care program
Examples of Mindfulness Techniques
- Mindful walking
- Breathing exercises (deep breathing, minute breathing, or counting breathes, only if allowed by your health care provider)
- Listening
- Healthy eating
- Meditation
- Journaling
- Music
- Soothing sounds
- Five senses exercises (hear, smell, see, touch, and taste)
- Mindful grounding (staying in the present by using your 5 senses)
- Peaceful drive
- Body scan yourself to keep yourself focused in the moment
- Pay attention to what is around
- Sitting meditating
Key reasons to use mindfulness:
- Reduce stress, anxiety and depression
- Improve mental health
- Insomnia
- Pain management
- Control and balance of negative thoughts
- As part of your overall self-care treatment plan
- To keep yourself in the present instead of looking into a future we cannot predict or dwell on the past for things we cannot change
Sources used:
- National Institute of Health, Department of Health of Human Rescoures, NIH News in Health, accessed July 17, 2024
- Mayo Clinic, Mindfulness, accessed July 17, 2024
- Psychology today, Mindfulness, accessed July 17, 2024
- Psychiatry, USCF.edu, Mindfulness, accessed, July 17, 2024
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Note: all information in “Nikki’s Story” are based on detail journals covering seven years of Nikki’s life on prescription drugs.
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