Ways Mindfulness Nurtures Your Spirit (Video)

 

We have all heard about mindfulness - it supposedly makes you happier, smarter, and richer, right? Often, a lot of focus gets placed on what mindfulness can do for you physically and materially. While those benefits are fantastic, perhaps, more importantly, mindfulness has other equally awesome but less material perks.

 

Mindfulness can nurture the part of you that’s deep inside - your spirit. When you make mindfulness a second-nature practice in your life, you will experience the uplifting benefits it offers. Here are ways that mindfulness nurtures your spirit:

 

Mindfulness makes you focus on the present moment, which leads to joy. Mindfulness is all about being aware of the current emotional, physical, and mental state you’re in right at this moment. It makes you aware that the past is in the past and the future is not here yet, so the present is where living occurs.

 

You can recognize the many happiness conditions in you and around you, and happiness comes naturally. Rather than getting mired down in the difficulties of the past or worries about the future, mindfulness allows your joy to burst forth in the present. Because the present is all, we truly have. 

 

Instead of ruminating about problems or other people’s successes, people can direct their attention to their own personal values and engage in behaviors that enhance their own lives.

 

Envy and anger decrease, and personal well-being increases. When you are mindful, you can more easily recognize what is causing your anxiety. Mindfulness helps to clear your thinking and make decisions that are best for you. Instead of wasting your time focusing on other people’s lives, you can place all your energy onto your own life. Your goals and dreams become more tangible, and life becomes more vivid when you take care of your own needs and desires.

 

Finally, Mindfulness reduces anger, creating space for positive emotions to blossom. Anger is often a very unpleasant emotion to feel because it can hurt not only others but ourselves. It can feel painful to be angry. Anger that festers inside our bodies and minds stunts the growth of a spirit of peace and happiness.

 

In the busyness of everyday life - working, running errands, taking care of others - we can forget that our spirits need to be taken care of for us to flourish. Mindfulness lets us tap into that less tangible but equally important part of ourselves and provide it with some TLC.