Mindfulness is about awareness of your present-moment thoughts, feelings, emotions & outputs. Disconnecting yourself from the worries of the past & anxieties of what will happen to us in future. It’s all about living in the present moment & feeling the flow of time.
In this blog, I will share the 35 Amazing Benefits of Practicing Mindfulness for Just a few minutes a day.
1-Live More In the Present: Mindfulness brings awareness, and awareness brings you more joy.
2-Improve Performance: If you are neither in the past nor in the future. You are in the present, and you are clearly doing things that are supposed to be done.
3-Deal with Chaos & Change: If you are in the present moment, you are neither distracted by the stress of the past nor the worries of the past. You are physically and mentally in the same place.
4-Finding Meaning & Purpose: You discover yourself when you know yourself. You discover your strengths and weaknesses. You find your meaning in life, and this meaning leads you to find your purpose.
5-Accept How Things are: Mindfulness brings you peace of mind. When you are neither worried about your past nor future, you have defined what you can control and can’t. Now you will accept things as they are. Things will not bother you as much as they bother a mindless person.
6-Be More Self-Accepted: You are more self-aware and have more acceptance. You will accept every good and bad part of your life.
7-Higher Self-Esteem: Higher Self Awareness brings Higher Self-Esteem.
8-Anger Management: When you know what you can control and can’t. You stop worrying about things and start paying fewer emotions to things that don’t matter much.
9-Improve Difficult Relationships: 9th benefit of Mindfulness is Improving relationships. Mindfulness makes you more composed in your personal life.
10-Improve Ability to Communicate: More Self-aware person makes you more composed in your communication.
11-Achieve Better Work-Life Balance: Mindfulness brings you more awareness of your priorities. You try to be more balanced in every aspect of your life.
12-Improve Clarity: Self-awareness makes you more clear about goals and vision.
13-Improve Focus in Life: Mindfulness is most about focusing on things that matter to you. Instead of getting distracted by everything, you choose what to focus on.
14-Improve Memory: Mindfulness is about Improved memory. More focused you are, the better memory you will have.
15-Enhance Problem-Solving Skills: Mindfulness allows you to be more solution-oriented and enhances your problem-solving skills.
16-Enhance Decision-Making Skill: When you are aware of your priorities, you make more sensible decisions.
17-Make you Visionary Person: Mindfulness give you enlightenment and the power to create your personal vision.
18-Improve Creativity: Mindfulness makes you more creative and innovative.
19-Increase EQ (Emotional Intelligence): Emotional intelligence is considered a more critical factor than IQ. Mindfulness is about being emotionally Balanced.
20-Develop Greater Presence: Greater awareness enriches your personality with many good things and strengthens your aura.
21-Enhance Self Awareness: More Self Centered you are, the more composed you will be.
21-Enhance Social Awareness: A Mindful person will always be more aware of his surrounding. He will be more observant about the people around him and their problems.
22-Help to Reprogram Habitual Mind: It is comparatively very easy to reprogram your conscious mind compared to the sub-conscious part. When you are aware of your habits, you will be able to
23-Recognise & Eliminate Time Limiting Beliefs: Self Centered person has mature belief systems about the world around them.
24-Develop Leadership Skills: Leadership is the one characteristic that is the greatest of all. Mindfulness brings your focus, creativity, problem-solving, vision and much more. All these strengths can be titled leadership.
25-Make you Aligned with the Values: Self Centered person is about finding your personal values and aligning yourself with those social norms. A person who is mindlessly hardworking for a better life may overlook his values.
26-Be More Intuitive: In MBTI, there is a preference “N” known as “Intuitive”. They can foresee the future. Self Centered people can predict the future and get prepared for it.
27-Increase Well-Being: A more Self Centered person is more balanced in his life. More balance brings more well-being.
28-Tackle Sleep Problems: More balanced your day is, the more quality sleep you will have. Research proves that people practising meditation, yoga, and other forms of mindfulness enjoy better sleep.
29-Eat Mindfully: I have added a chapter in my book “The Art of living a Self-Centered life” about how mindful eating can make you more self-centred and closer to your food.
30-Become Calmer: Instead of worrying about things, you start articulating your tasks better, resulting in a more composed life.
31-Tackle Stress & Anxiety: Mindfulness is widely used to tackle stress and anxiety. Around the globe, mindfulness practices are considered rituals against psychological problems.
32-Manage MILD Depression: Mindfulness can be very helpful in dealing with mild depression symptoms. It helps you overcome your depression.
33-Improve Resilience: Mindfulness makes you more resilient in your life. You show more commitment and determination for things you believe in.
I am a psychologist, Author and Udemy Instructor. I have diverse Professional experience in teaching, training and counselling. For the past 7 years, I have contributed to the literature on positive psychology, self-help, personal development and student affairs. I regularly write a blog on www.abdulsalamspeaks.com, and here is the list of my publicly available resources.
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