Are you new to mindfulness? Are you wondering what mindfulness even is? Or what the benefits of mindfulness are? What are the ways to practice mindfulness? Here is a list of five mind-blowing mindfulness benefits!
I spiritually awakened about twelve years ago. Since then, I’ve learned to communicate with my Spirit Guides and receive Divine Guidance during meditation.
One thing that has come up over and over and over and over… Has been to practice mindfulness.
What is Mindfulness?
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Mindfulness is being present. It is paying attention to the now moment and fully being aware of what you are doing right now.
It sounded simple enough to me at the time! (LOL!)
But, learning mindfulness has turned out to be the most difficult thing I’ve ever tried to do!
When you practice being mindful, you keep your mind centered within your physical body. You stop obsessing over past mistakes and don’t worry about the future – You are here, now.
5 Mind-Blowing Mindfulness Benefits
Mindfulness Benefit #1: Mindfulness Puts you in the 5th Dimension
If you are interested in learning to manifest your dreams and desires, being in the 5th dimension is the way to go!
One day, while meditating, I heard the song, “Anything you want, you got it. Anything you need, you got it. Anything at all, you got it.”
I got super excited until I asked, “Anything?” And heard, “Yes, anything. From a fifth dimensional platform.”
Then I deflated a little more when I asked how I could stay in the fifth dimension. The answer I got was, “Practice mindfulness.”
So, I’ve been practicing mindfulness! For five years! Mindfulness meditation and all-day mindfulness activities! Anything to try to get my mind not to wander.
And, I’ve still not mastered staying in the present all the time. But, I continue to practice, practice, practice… Because the things I’ve visualized are indeed coming true!
Focusing your awareness fully in the present moment and being in the fifth dimension is as simple as focusing on your breath and bringing your attention point inside the frame of your body.
It is simple to do, but it is not easy. Your mind has been wandering aimlessly for many years! And for the most part you’ve been largely unaware of your thoughts.
Now, that you understand thoughts are things, you’re attempting to wrangle your mind and it does not want to be wrangled!
No matter, continue to practice, practice, practice!
And your dreams, desires, and visualizations will begin to manifest much faster as you learn to stop the worries and swirling thoughts that block manifestation of your true desires.
Yes, you can manifest more money! Or manifest free vacations, new jobs, that great new blender you’ve had your eye on, the sky is the limit!
For helpful Manifestation Tips, visit: How I Manifest Whatever I want with Ascended Masters Secrets
Mindfulness Benefit #2: Mindfulness Eases Stress, Therefore Slowing the Aging Process
Know any stressed-out people?
I sure do. And they don’t look great. Everybody knows stress ages us and is extremely hard on our whole entire system.
When we are stressed, we don’t sleep well. Stress hormones go into overtime and cause us to gain weight.
Our glands have a hard time continually producing hormones to deal with the constant stress, and we are left tired, overweight, and overwhelmed.
Anyway you slice it, stress is extremely hard on us mentally, physically and emotionally.
This often manifests physically as disease or dis – ease. In other words, you are not at ease. This allows for illness to take hold in our physical bodies.
We often stress over the past when there is nothing to do to change it, so why worry?
Then, we stress over what may come in the future, and unknowingly manifest the very thing we are placing our attention on using The Law of Attraction.
Staying mindful, in the present moment is a great way to reduce stress and focus on what’s right in front of you.
This helps you to take the necessary steps you can do today to improve your life and manifest a more desired future.
For more information on The Law of Attraction and manifesting techniques, visit: What is the Law of Attraction? I visualized Hawaii for a year…
Mindfulness Benefit #3: Mindfulness Makes Injuries Less Likely
I’ve done it a hundred times. Cut myself, burned myself, or fell, because I wasn’t paying attention.
I get bored cutting vegetables for the millionth time while making dinner and into the knife my finger goes.
One way I’ve found to counteract this is to say, “I’m present. I’m present. I’m present.”
At least while cutting the vegetables or putting things into the oven!
Another way that helps me stay mindful during repetitive tasks like dishes and cooking is to listen to music while doing it.
I listen to music that uplifts me and that I truly enjoy. This helps me want to stay present and keeps my mind from wandering while doing boring crap.
Mindfulness Benefit #4: Mindfulness Stops You from Regretting the Past and Worrying About the Future
As I stated before, The Law of Attraction states that you get whatever you continually focus your attention on, flawlessly.
We are all powerful Creator Beings, with the power to create worlds inside of us!
Mindfully focusing in the present keeps you from creating undesirable future outcomes.
Practicing mindfulness stops your mind from yammering on all the live long day about things that you can’t change.
Being mindful saves your mental energy and is very healing to the physical and mental bodies.
How many times have you practiced having conversations or arguments in your head before you actually have the argument or conversation?
And, how many times does the conversation or argument go exactly as it did in your head?
Pretty much never, right?
It is pointless to have future conversations or arguments that never go as you envision.
This leaves you depleted and opens you up to pulling that very uncomfortable conversation to yourself.
Just don’t do it!
Mindfulness Benefit #5: You Make Better Choices When You Practice Mindfulness
Instead of being reactionary to things that happen to you, you can pause, take a breath and make a better proactive choice in present time.
When someone cuts you off in traffic, your go-to reaction may be to throw a tantrum and go insane.
But what if you are present and gracious instead?
What if you pause, take a moment, realize you have more choices than just emotional reaction, and choose more wisely?
What if that person you are about to flip off turns out to be your new potential boss that you’re on your way to meet?
And instead of doing what you’ve always done and giving in to the road rage, you realize they probably cut you off because their mind wasn’t fully focused in the present?
Somewhere in the midst of this crazy awakening process and trying to be in charge of my every thought, action and emotion, I realized some of my thoughts, actions, and emotions were simply on a loop.
For example, once a month, feelings of unworthiness and wanting to quit life inevitably surface.
Instead of asking myself why, I immediately would react negatively to the unwanted emotions.
I’d push, fight, and then give in. Telling myself things like, “Of course I can’t do this.” And, “I should have given up sooner.”
This month, I’m more present than I’ve ever been, due to practice.
When these feelings inevitably surfaced, I asked myself, “Why?”
I realized these feelings surface when I have PMS! I was never aware of myself enough before to be present, pause, and ask where feelings were coming from.
So instead of reacting and giving in to the negative self-talk, I responded from a present-time awareness.
I bumped up my nutrition to help balance my hormone levels and went outside to get lots of air and sunshine.
This month, I refused to let these same feelings bowl me over and take me down for a week until I magically felt better equipped to deal with the emotions.
I took action and responded proactively, rather than reacting negatively.
And now, if those feelings come up again, I’ll know how to better respond and hopefully do it out of habit, therefore creating a better future.
For all things Mindfulness Meditation, including Mindfulness Benefits, Techniques, and Tips for Practicing Mindfulness Meditation, read: The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Mindfulness Meditation