Finding Peace in a Chaotic Life

Mindfulness or Meditation Practice 

In this months blog I am introducing you to the use of Mindfulness and Meditation. This is something that can really impact the amount of calm and peacefulness you have in your life. When all else fails, especially on a really bad day, meditation can help reset your emotions and your stress levels. 
Benefits of Mindfulness and Meditation
                Meditation can decrease your body's stress response, increasing relaxation, calmness, balancing mood, decreasing blood pressure, inflammation, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), insomnia, and fatigue. Meditation leaves you feeling happier, more balanced emotionally, and improves your resiliency to life's stresses.
Some people use Mindfulness and Meditation interchangeably. My interpretation though is that they are two different things.  
Mindfulness
To me, Mindfulness is something you where you are alert and more aware of your surroundings, but you are more relaxed and not necessarily interacting with your surroundings, just observing them passively. You are taking slower deeper breaths, you are noticing the little things around you, or even in you and observing them, or your feelings, you are not judging what you see or feel, but just acknowledging them. The act of Mindfulness gives you the ability to disengage with the busyness going on around you, focusing on the Now, slowing down your breath, which in turn slows down your heart rate, which then calms your sympathetic nervous system, your fight of flight response.  This helps with multiple health benefits to your mind, body, and spirit. 

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