Practicing mindfulness helps you:

• to be fully present, here and now (look for future blog on this)
• to experience unpleasant thoughts and feelings safely
• to become aware of what you are avoiding
• to become more connected to yourself, to others, and to the world around you
• to increase self-awareness (see blog of 11/24, 2016)
• to become less disturbed by and less reactive to unpleasant experiences
• to learn the distinction between you and your thoughts (see blog of 5/11/2017)
• to have more direct contact with the world, rather than living through your thoughts
• to learn that everything changes; that thoughts and feeling come and go like the weather (see page 223 of The Book of Lane on “Change.”
• to have more balance (see page 102 on “Are You In or Out of Balance?”
• to experience more calm and peacefulness
• to develop self-acceptance and self-compassion

Mindfulness training has emerged as a powerful tool for enhancing psychological health.  It has been clinically proven to help in a wide range of clinical disorders, including chronic pain, anxiety disorders, depression, post traumatic stress syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder, substance abuse, and bipolar and borderline personality disorder.