Naturally Carli

What exactly is mindfulness? 🧐

To define anything that is felt using only language, is a challenge 🏔 But I’ll give it my best try💫:

Mindfulness to me, is the practise of focusing your full energy completely on the present moment consciously noticing your 5 senses and how you feel ✨

Otherwise defined by the word . . .

✨ Interoceptive awareness✨

Interoceptive awareness is the practise of becoming aware of the present moment so much so we attitude to what’s happening in our minds, surroundings, and body🧠🌍🧘‍♀️

This is mindfulness✨

The sensation of feeling what is in the current moment ✨

Being aware of your senses✨

- sight 👀
- sound 👂
- smell 👃
- taste 👅
- touch 🖐

Mindfulness is the opposite of living in the past or future and allowing ourselves to be reactive to our thoughts and emotions 💥

It is being conscious in the true present moment✨

A study was done in 2015 in Germany. It’s findings were that after 3 months of a meditation practise🧘‍♀️, participants reported improved interoceptive awareness is the following 5 areas:

~ attention regulation
~ emotional awareness
~ self-regulation
~ body listening
~ and trusting

Learning how to listen to our bodies cues help us become more aware of our mental, emotional, and physical needs. This can help us learn tools to get our needs met in a holistic, health benefiting way 🥰

However, if meditation is something you have tried and hasn’t worked out for you so far don’t fret. imo you do not need to meditate in the traditional sense to gain these benefits 💯

Tapping into mindfulness can be done by a number of activities like:

- walking outside in nature 🌳
- having a warm bath 🛁
- biking 🚴‍♂️
- gardening 👩‍🌾
- dancing 💃
- drinking a warm mug of tea and observing how the mug feels in your hand 🫖
- practising yoga 🧘‍♀️

Anything that disconnects you from the past and future, and puts your focus on the present moment you are in . . .

Is mindfulness ✨