practicing daily mindfulness

If you're new to mindfulness, start by practicing at different times in your day. Once you find what works best for you, dedicate time in your daily schedule for formal and informal mindfulness activities. Been practicing for awhile? Is your schedule still working for you or do you need to rethink what times are best to center yourself and regroup?

Follow Ms. Duenn's tips and suggestions for making #mindfulness part of your daily routine.

To build your personal Mindfulness practices, start small and try practicing once a day at different times to decide what time of day works the best for you to focus on the Here and Now.

Once you have discovered the best time of day for yourself and practiced focusing your attention, it will be easier to focus that attention at more distracting times of your daily life. the other on the developers.

As you develop your Mindfulness practices, try doing them in a minimally distracting space. Make sure you are comfortable before you begin. You may want to dim the lights in the room, close the door, and put on your most comfortable, least binding clothes.

These little steps will help prepare your body to relax and your mind gain focus on the mindfulness activity you have chosen.

Concentrate on your breathing to enhance your Mindfulness. Breathe in through your nose, and out through your mouth. For the next 10 breaths, with each thought or feeling that comes to your mind, imagine placing it on a cloud and breathing it away as you exhale. Send those thoughts out of your mind, so you can focus on the present moment.

Try practicing this, or other mindfulness activities, throughout each day over the next week.

During your commute, either to work or to school, commit to noticing one new thing you have never noticed before. This could be a business you didn’t know was there, a new stop sign, the smell of coffee or food as you pass restaurants. What can you notice now that you have never noticed before?

Try this Mindfulness Activity throughout the week to see how many new things you discover about your commute.

​Have you ever noticed how much you walk around and don’t even know that you are doing it? Who practices paying attention to what steps you are taking when there are things to be done?!?

For this week's Mindfulness Activity, see if you can notice the moment when your left step becomes your right step, and right step becomes the left. Rest there in that moment, and then move on.

The New Year is the perfect time to make gratitude part of your family's daily mindfulness routine. In the spirit of a New Year's Eve celebration, use a glitter visual timer to do a countdown as part of your reflection.

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Take time during the holidays or any busy season to focus on your breathing.

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Making hot cocoa is a sensory rich experience that offers perfect opportunities to teach younger children how to pause and be mindful.

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