LI: To practise mindfulness
Today, we focused on mindfulness and having a peaceful mental well-being. Sometimes, our mind isn’t concentrating well and is doing something called ‘mind wandering’. We calmed ourselves down by using the Pause, Breathe and Smile method.
Mindfulness is calming your body and your mind, focusing on your mental health, focusing on what’s happening right now, removing the negativity from your mind and being mindful of yourself and others. Mindfulness is a way to balance the 4 pillars of your hauora.
Often in a frustrating situation, our mind enters the red zone. The red zone is when we feel angry, anxious, frustrated, irritable, stressed, overly excited, worried, distracted or any other negative emotion that we usually cannot control. We use a mindfulness technique which helps us to be calm, clear, content, balanced, peaceful, relaxed, curious and engaged in what we are doing.
This session of mindfulness was helpful because it can help yourself and others become calm in stressful situations as well as focus on what is happening right now and being aware of your emotions.
Kia Ora Ayden, this was awesome to read. I have been doing mindfulness too and at first I wasn't sure but I have found it to be really helpful. If nothing else its a moment of quiet where you get to focus on your breathing which has such positive affects on the heart.
ReplyDeleteI like how you mentioned the red zone, everyone goes into the red zone sometimes and mindfulness helps us bring ourselves out of it.
Awesome writing Ayden, keep up the good work.