Why do people engage in mindfulness practices? In my experience, people that come to me to share in my teachings found that they really resonate with how functional it is.
The tools that you can use in your life - returning to your breath when we're over-analyzing things, returning to the body to notice emotions and tension and anxiety that we're feeling, and shifting the way that we see things, so instead of getting caught up and reacting to situations or to interactions, we respond more skillfully.
This helps reduce stress, tension, anxiety, and depression; and increase focus, clarity, productivity, and effectiveness.
It really has a wealth of different tools that can be applied to it.
That's why I find everybody comes to mindfulness, the increasing growth is really about those key areas.
Effects of Meditation (About Meditation Effects of Meditation and Mindfulness Training) Right on the outset, some of the most powerful effects that I've noticed, personally, is the ability to come back to our senses.
Sometimes we're wearing so much tension and anxiety in our bodies that we don't even know that we're wearing that tension and holding it within our bodies.
Right when we cue in, we can relax our shoulders.
Even right now, you can relax your belly if there's some pulling there.
Notice if there's some impatience in our chest.
I'm able to take a little bit deeper breaths, more fluid breaths.
One of the greatest impacts is that sense of relaxation that comes out of it, also the sense of ease that comes out of being in this flow state.
If we're at work and/or really need to maintain a high level of productivity, being able to return to our breath, being able to return to what's happening to us in that moment takes us away from that story line that sometimes holds us back from really achieving our full potential.
Really, that reduction in stress, the easing into the moment, that clarity, that focus that can come out of that, I find are the greatest benefits and the most immediate effects.
Then it really affects later parts in our lives as well by this sense of stronger and more developed relationships, deeper engaging moments, whatever we're doing we're not thinking about something else that we need to be doing or something that we want to be doing.
We can just rest easy and content - essentially this overall sense of joy and happiness that comes out of it.