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Mindfulness. It\u2019s a pretty straightforward word. It suggests that the mind is fully attending to what\u2019s happening, to what you\u2019re doing, to the space you\u2019re moving through. That might seem trivial, except for the annoying fact that we so often veer from the matter at hand. Our mind takes flight, we lose touch with our body, and pretty soon we\u2019re engrossed in obsessive thoughts about something that just happened or fretting about the future. And that makes us anxious.<\/span><\/p>\n Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we\u2019re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what\u2019s going on around us.<\/span><\/p>\n When we meditate it doesn\u2019t help to fixate on the benefits, but rather to just do the practice, and yet there are benefits or no one would do it.<\/span><\/p>\n When we\u2019re mindful, we reduce stress, enhance performance, gain insight and awareness through observing our own mind, and increase our attention to others\u2019 well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n To learn more, visit:\u00a0local1946.ca<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n #MindfulMonday #mentalhealthmatters<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mindfulness. It\u2019s a pretty straightforward word. It suggests that the mind is fully attending to what\u2019s happening, to what you\u2019re doing, to the space you\u2019re moving through. That might seem trivial, except for the annoying fact that we so often veer from the matter at hand. Our mind takes flight, we lose touch with our","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":17110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 06:51:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/classicrock981.com\/blogs\/2021\/07\/mental-health-monday-mindfullness\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17109,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107\/revisions\/17109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>Yet no matter how far we drift away, mindfulness is right there to snap us back to where we are and what we\u2019re doing and feeling. If you want to know what mindfulness is, it\u2019s best to try it for a while. Since it\u2019s hard to nail down in words, you will find slight variations in the meaning in books, websites, audio, and video.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>The Definition of Mindfulness<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Mindfulness is a quality that every human being already possesses, it\u2019s not something you have to conjure up, you just have to learn how to access it.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>The Benefits of Mindfulness Practice:<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Mindfulness meditation gives us a time in our lives when we can suspend judgment and unleash our natural curiosity about the workings of the mind, approaching our experience with warmth and kindness\u2014to ourselves and others.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Try this 5 minute Body Scan Meditation each morning:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dsmfIAyiois<\/span><\/p>\n