The Benefits of Mindfulness

Mindfulness is an amazing state of present awareness that can be a great tool in our daily lives to allow us to have control over our mental state, and resulting in a control over our physical being. It includes awareness, intention, attitude, attention, changing relationship to experience, skills, and can be extrapolated to affecting our epigenetics (the turning on/off of genes in our bodies). Becoming enlightened to things that come into our life, can help us to adjust our reactions accordingly, to elicit the most appropriate response. It can be utilized in a formal practice (meditation etc.), or informal practice. The resource listed below is a chapter in a textbook that describes what mindfulness can do for us and what it can not do, with additional resources included and cited information about how we can utilize it. It is important to keep in mind that mindfulness is not the end all and be all to conquering and curing all disease and mental disturbances, but can be a dramatic positive impact on our quality of life.

Mindfulness Readings