Life stressors like trauma, relationship conflicts, or even our own patterns of thoughts and behaviors can be so painful that they block out everything else. Strong emotions, or attempts to avoid them, can take the wheel -- and steer us away from what we really want.
Mindful living helps connect you to what else matters to you, now or in the life you want to live.
Worries about the future, procrastinaton of tasks or experiences we dread, or grief and regret about the past can be so powerful that they keep us from interacting with what we can actually control: what's happening right now.
Mindful living allows you to cultivate awareness and connection to the present moment.
Depression, anxiety, ADHD, interpersonal difficulties, and coping with trauma all interrupt feelings of control over our lives, or belief that anything will ever change.
Mindful living allows you to explore and reengage with your values and goals to stop surviving and start living.
The first step to changing a painful situation – whether that situation is created by our emotions, by an external situation, or both – is to understand where we are and where we want to go. If you jump in a river and start swimming with your eyes closed, you certainly will move in some direction… but not necessarily in the direction where you hope to end up. Mindfulness is a set of skills for observing and reacting effectively to the world around us without getting caught up in the unhelpful assumptions, rules, and patterns of behavior that kept you stuck in the first place.
No two individuals experience life exactly the same way. Tap into your own values and goals to create a life worth living.
Build skills to increase awareness of and engagement with the world around you -- and the world inside you.
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