What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness can be defined as paying attention to present moment with openness, curiosity and acceptance.
Mindfulness is best strengthened by a regular meditation practice. This practice invites us to slow down, breathe and observe our inner experience. Practicing mindfulness can give us the tools we need to stay in the present, remain focused and reduce distracting stressors and negative thoughts. Meditation helps us to learn to view unwanted thoughts and feelings as merely passing mental events.
With over 10 years of formal training to identify how mindfulness practices can be used as instruments of change, our programs draw from dimensions of spirituality, science, and social behavior. Grounded in education and elevated by experience, the methodology at Ease is built on peer-reviewed evidence based practice.
Here and now.
Mindfulness is a quality of alert, open awareness. In contrast to a multitasking mind, mindfulness is a state of mind that has the ability to pay attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment. It is a state of simply being. We aren’t trying to do anything. We aren’t trying to get anywhere.
Evidence based benefits of mindfulness include increasing compassion, kindness and connection towards ourselves and others. With practice, we can become less judgmental and reactive to the stressors of everyday life.
Meditation is not a magical cure, but with time and practice we can change our relationship with our thoughts and feelings.