3 Examples of How Mindfulness can Change Your Life
Posted on December 31, 2020 by Paula Castillo, One of Thousands of Career Coaches on Noomii.
From identifying limiting beliefs to reducing stress, here are 3 examples of how mindfulness can change your life.
Mindfulness is a state of being, an attribute and a practice.
According to Dr. Shauna Shapiro, it’s about focusing your full attention with kindness and without judgement. It has many proven benefits for well-being, from improved the quality of sleep to increasing the ability to recover from a difficult event.
3 examples of how Mindfulness can change your life:
1. It can improve our response to challenging events
Challenging moments in our daily lives upset our feelings and can cloud our logical thinking.
As a result, we react to challenges without really understanding what is behind our actions. The theory is that, when faced with a challenge, we generate thoughts and opinions about it. It is these thoughts that provoke emotions. If we aren’t aware of our internal dialogue, our decisions can be based on the emotions that arise from it.
Mindfulness helps to see through the emotional noise and observe what we say to ourselves at the moment when we feel activated so that we can better respond to situations.
2. Improves daily stress management
In addition to reducing stress, Mindfulness helps us see stress as an opportunity to live a fuller life.
Stress impacts our brains so that we concentrate sharply on a specific problem. When stress is negative, we can ruminate on this problem for a long time. “Positive” stress motivates us so that we create generate changes in our lives, for examplem when a person has a health scare they can take it as a warning to change their habits.
Mindfulness helps us be aware of when we feel stressed and observe it to identify if we can take action.
3. Helps us achieve long-term achievements
When you want to achieve a goal, how do you mentally motivate yourself to achieve it? According to self-compassion expert Kristin Neff, self-criticism can help us in the short term, but in the long term it leads us to abandon our long-term goals.
Self-criticism activates the amygdala, the cerebral part of the brain that detects threats in our environment. To fight these “threats” our body increases our strength and energy by raising our blood pressure, adrenaline and cortisol. If we don’t stop to recover, self-criticism deteriorates us physically while building up a negative self-image, pushing us to give up on our goals.
Mindfulness, and self-compassion specifically, lowers our cortisol levels and helps us change our self-perception. In this way, self-compassion supports us in achieving our long-term goals.
Through coaching sessions, we work to clarify your goals, and develop routines and skills, such as conscious self-compassion, to achieve them in the long term. To get a free coaching session contact me through my Noomii profile.
