Creating a Healthy Lifestyle

Mindfulness is when you focus your attention on an object, image, or nature.  It is a healthy form of meditation where you focus on the experience– and accepting it as it is.  You don’t form any judgments about the object of focus.  You accept it as it is.  This will take practice, depending on where you are in your life.  In one example, Jim says, ” I just can’t focus.  I’m used to being busy all the time and I can’t concentrate.” In this situation, Jim is used to being busy all the time.  Even when he comes home from his job he works in the yard or does wood work in the basement of his house.

If you are in a situation, like Jim, it is important for you to take time to relax and “smell the roses.”  If you don’t, you will eventually feel a lot of stress in your life.  It can affect your health in a negative way, causing various stress related conditions, such as:  high blood pressure, tension, and  autoimmune disease.  So mindful meditation can bring you closer to a healthy lifestyle.

One way of making it easy to meditate is to do informal mindfulness.  Begin your day focusing on the things you do.  As soon as you awaken, become mindful of you taking a shower with the droplets of water flowing on your skin.  There are various ways to being mindful during the day: getting dressed, eating slowly, doing work around the house or on the job, and so on.  Remember to focus only what you’re mindful of and accepting it as it is.  Your mind will become distracted at times, but go back to what you are meditating on.  As you practice, it will become easier.

Essentially, as you practice mindfulness you will be closer to a healthy lifestyle as I further explain in my latest book, “Create a Healthy Lifestyle.”  It will be a joyful adventure.