Today, I introduce you to mindfulness. Mindfulness helps to improve both mental and physical health. By increasing your capacity for mindfulness, you are supporting healthy attitudes that contribute to a satisfied life. It makes it easier to savor pleasures in life as they occur and helps you to become fully engaged in activities. It also provides you with a greater capacity to deal with adverse events. By focusing on the present, you are less likely to get caught up in worries about the future or regrets over the past.

You are less preoccupied with concerns about success and self esteem and it increases the ability to form deeper connections with others. Physically, mindfulness helps relieve stress, treats heart disease, lowers blood pressure, reduces chronic pain, improve sleep and alleviates gastrointestinal disorders. Mindfulness involves both concentration and acceptance. It has you deliberately pay attention to thoughts and sensations without judgment.