Mindfulness & Meditation as a Solution
March 3, 2025
We are all human. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, or if you’re feeling like making your health your mental health priority is a challenge, or you’re feeling anxious, or if you feel like you’re being pulled in many different directions, just know it’s possible to improve both your mental and physical health. And the solution is mindfulness and meditation. You should know just how easy it actually is and there are so many proven scientific benefits to mindfulness meditation.
Science has discovered that not only does meditation and mindfulness increase grey matter of the brain, the actual material that makes us smarter!
It also us to see more clearly, to be able to identify the real priorities and set aside the things in our lives are not priorities but that constantly demand our attention. It allows us be with and process our emotions, and especially for my friends with children, it’s a powerful practice you can try with your whole family. It can really help children manage big emotions.
It allows us to be more present with ourselves, with each other, and allows us to make conscious decisions with what we consume, how we spend our time during each day. Have you ever gone to the movies and before you knew it, you consumed an entire bag of popcorn or box of sweet treats, and barely remember the taste? Mindless eating and living our lives on auto pilot is a dangerous trap that is so easy to fall into.
Mindfulness and meditation allows us to see clearly what we have control over, and what we don’t have control over. For instance, two people could be sitting in the same traffic jam and in separate cars, and one could be frustrated and angry and irritated, while the person in the next car could be calm and collected and peaceful and seeing this as a moment to slow down and just breath.
And it’s as easy as finding a few moments of stillness and turning your focus to your inhales and exhales. Consciously thinking and breathing in, and consciously thinking and breathing out. This helps us to calm what some refer to as the “monkey mind”.
So take a few moments of everyday for a few moments or minutes of mindfulness and meditation, and if you’d like to work with me send me a message or sign up for my monthly inspirational newsletter at mindfulimpactwell.com/newsletters. You can also follow me on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and TikTok. Stay happy, stay healthy, stay present my friends.