How To Develop More Mindfulness
Over the last few years I have become more aware of just how important mindfulness is if you want to live a happy and healthy life. For the uninitiated, mindfulness is the reference to a state of self awareness and self consciousness so that you essentially live in a state of presence and focus. At least that’s my very simplistic take on it.
Many of you will have heard of author and podcaster, Tim Ferriss. If you haven’t then I highly recommend looking him up as a great source of inspiration on a variety of topics. He did a podcast late last year discussing mindfulness and some of his tips (he’s a bit of a guru when it comes to this stuff). I highly encourage listening to this particular podcast if you interested in the topic. There was however, one particular tip that I found to be especially useful that I would like to share. It was using a daily journal.
His recommended take on a daily journal is in a question and answer format and goes like this;
Morning
What is a relationship you have valued in the past?
Name one thing you are grateful for today (my personal question in addition to Tim’s that I use interchangeably with the above question)
Name an opportunity you have today?
Write down one great thing that happened yesterday.
Observe and describe in detail one simple thing that is nearby.
Night
Name an amazing thing that happened today?
How could today have been better?
In total this should take you no longer then 5 minutes in the morning and night. I advise writing them down, don’t just think about the answers. There is something in the process of writing that makes you place more focus on the questions. I use a dairy that has a page for everyday and personally prefer hand writing.
I have done this almost every day since the beginning of the year. I find it an excellent way to clarify your thoughts and bring presence and focus into the day. It actually can be quite energising. In fact I had stopped using it for all of April (as a test) and observed a significant lack of all these things and thus have started again.
It’s simple, easy and costs you nothing. Just give it a go for a few weeks and see what you notice. You never know how it might improve your life.
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