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Mindfulness vs meditation

What the heck is mindfulness? | Mindfulness vs meditation

Today I wanted to talk a little bit about mindfulness. What the heck is mindfulness?

We hear a lot about meditation how meditation can help you get to live a peaceful life, do all this stuff and you will be okay. But lately we've also been hearing the word mindfulness a lot. You see it on the cover of magazines even online on social media. What exactly is mindfulness and what is the difference between mindfulness and meditation.

Meditation is a disciplined practice where you practice every day sometimes multiple times a day.

Meditation is a ritual, there is a way to do it. It is a way that you practice that makes you feel comfortable and there are guidelines that you follow in order to have an optimal practice to experience the benefits.
Mindfulness is what you carry with you after your practice.
Mindfulness is different because it's not really a ritual that you prepare yourself to practice. It is what you carry with you after your practice so your meditation practice isn't actually over. It's not finished. You carry those feelings and those skills and those techniques that you've strengthened and use it to handle stressful situations or difficult emotions or just to have a clearer mind and be more organized in your thoughts and the way that you go about your life.

Mindfulness is really the practice of being awake and aware and present throughout your day.

Mindfulness is really the practice of being awake and aware and present throughout your day. You can practice it really whenever you want. For example say that you are washing the dishes or brushing your teeth instead of doing these things on autopilot you bring yourself into center, into present moment and you can do that by maybe counting your brush strokes while you're brushing your teeth or while you're washing the dishes. You can make a mental note by saying out loud, washing, washing, washing.

You can make a mental note by saying out loud, washing, washing, washing.

It sounds silly but when you do it it really kind of brings your body and your mind together as a whole and then you notice maybe other distractions kind of fall away because you're just focusing on that one action. And that's what we really practice when we do meditating. When you're meditating you're focusing either just on your breath just on your chanting you're focusing on that one thing and that's what strengthens your mind to be able to choose what you want to think about when you want to think about it rather than being taken away by the river of infinite random thoughts.

You are the sailboat in that river and I don't know any people sail but in rivers yeah that's a good way to put it so meditation.

Is a more formal practice and then mindfulness is what happens after that meditation the choices that you make when you are normally in autopilot throughout your day it is that moment where you decide that you want to be present for that you really feel what you're feeling and just maybe take a breath just take it feels really good just take a deep breath in and feel your breath you notice your breath maybe you feel it in your chest or in your belly or in your nose and you take a break from whatever thoughts are in your mind.

I am NOT being bombarded by the things that I have to do tomorrow or by what just happened before.

I am in this moment and this is really nice and then you know you can continue on with your day. The more that you practice mindfulness and being aware then the more that you find that clarity showing up on its own throughout your day. Or when you notice that maybe you're slipping into a thought pattern of stress your mind just brings you back into a center and reminds you wait this is something that you can do when you're feeling badly. So, you start to build a response system to negative feelings and thoughts and distractions and that varies between a person. It could be weeks or it could be months but the main factor is that you're practicing it. You know meditation and mindfulness they're just exercises for our brains as it strengthens those pathways in your brain that help you to be more focused. They help you to be more clear they help you to be less stressed and over time you're really going to experience those benefits off more clarity the ability to face adversity better. You're not being as forgetful these things come with time and practice but what's really great is that you can take your meditation practice and transform it into mindfulness and then take that practice everywhere you go.

That is the main difference between meditation and mindfulness meditation is going to be your formal practice and mindfulness is going to be being awake and aware whenever you choose to do so throughout your routine throughout your day.

So, I hope that sets may be a clarity between mindfulness and meditation so next time when you see the word you know how to differentiate them and you can also involve them in your life and make them a part of what you practice every day.

I hope that was helpful for you thank you so much for tuning into this video and I hope to see you next time.

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