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Are you constantly busy: juggling different responsibilities, plans, and
worries?

Do you look forward to a time when life might feel less frantic, simpler, and
happier? 

What if that time could be now?



 By learning how to pause and rest our attention on just one thing at a time, 

we can create some space to simply be.

And from the stillness of simply being, we can nurture stability, calmness, and
happiness



 This is the practice and potential of mindfulness.

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Busy, Busy, Busy



Life can be extremely busy, and many of us start each day with a long to-do list
and many different responsibilities to manage. More often than not our attention
is divided between many different things at any given moment and we can often
pride ourselves on our ability to multitask. How many of us check our texts
whilst waiting at the checkouts; eat our lunch whilst working at our desks; sort
washing or do some tidying as we watch the dinner cooking? 

 

And whilst our bodies are busy carrying out all these tasks, our minds are often
somewhere else completely: we might worry about a family issue as we drive to
work; harbour resentful thoughts as we clean the house; anxiously recall our 'to
do list' as we eat the evening meal; plan tomorrow's tasks whilst brushing our
teeth at bedtime.  

 

We seem to go through life on automatic-pilot, our minds appearing to go round
and round, jumping from one thing to another, with little or no direction from
ourselves. A mind that is 'scattered' in this way can be troublesome - how often
do we feel  overtired, forgetful, lacking in concentration, dissatisfied, uneasy
or even overwhelmed?  



A wandering mind is an unhappy mind 



A Harvard study found that people spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours
thinking about something other than what they are doing. It seems that this kind
of 'mindlessness' is the default setting for many of us, with the mind spending
much of its time focused on the past, the future, or wading through
self-critical 'should haves' and 'what ifs'. The study found that allowing the
brain to run on auto-pilot like this can make people unhappy. The researchers
concluded that “A wandering mind is an unhappy mind.” 



“Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention,

on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgementally” 

Jon Kabat-Zinn 

 

Mindfulness is a gentle way of training our attention so that we begin to notice
when automatic pilot is taking over. By taking a pause, and intentionally
choosing where to place our attention, we can step out of automatic-pilot and
get a sense of what is really happening – both internally and externally. From
these moments of awareness and clarity we create space: space from which we can
respond skilfully to challenges and difficulties, rather than reacting in
habitual ways. 



Mindfulness also enables us to notice the simple pleasures life has to offer,
and the opportunities we have to

nurture happiness and joy.  



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