Practicing Daily Mindfulness
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Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, an exploration of Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves. I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher. This is Episode 78 – Practicing Daily Mindfulness
Awareness doesn’t just happen. While it is available for everyone, you need to be cognizant of the effort it takes to gain the necessary insight to yourself.
Mindfulness is not a one-time practice
Being mindful is not something you can do once and then neglect. It requires constant check-ins and considerations to be taken.
Mindfulness is the awareness of your thoughts, feelings, actions, and intent. You gain recognition in the present of what you are thinking, as well as what and how you are feeling.
Mindfulness doesn’t just cover your thoughts and feelings alone. It also goes deeper. Mindfulness delves into your psyche, your overall mental, emotional, and spiritual makeup.
Being mindful, in a nutshell, is ultimately being aware of you.
Because of how society tends to work, people live more subconsciously than consciously. What does that mean? It means you do things by rote and you live within and by a routine, just going with the flow.
Awareness of the now changes
The moment is constantly changing. How and where you are right now is not the same as how and where you will be in an hour. It may be largely similar – but it will still change.
Because of the constant changing it is important to keep reminding yourself of where your headspace is.
I have begun a new practice of asking myself these questions aloud first thing every morning:
- What am I thinking?
- How am I feeling?
- What am I feeling?
- How do I expect today to be?
- What can I do to take control today?
Then, throughout my day, I re-ask some or all these questions. That allows me to keep aware of myself as change happens throughout the day.
Nobody is perfect
I have been with mindfulness and conscious reality creation for years. When I am having a good day, and am totally conscious of my thoughts and feelings I can get a lot of work done and do some awesome things.
However, when I am having a bad day – and I am overwhelmed by either happenings directly impacting me and/or world news and information – this is challenging. If I absorb too much of that negativity into my subconscious taking back conscious control becomes that much more challenging.
It’s easy to beat myself up for slipping. If I don’t practice what I preach, and who am I to keep pushing these ideas?
The answer is easy – a human being.
Nobody is perfect – or – everybody is perfectly imperfect. As such, nobody is always conscious of their thoughts and feelings. Mindlessness happens – and there are times to just embrace it and let go.
Closing:
Thank you for joining me for Awareness for Everyone and sharing in this exploration of Conscious Reality Creation and living the best lives we can for ourselves. If you have any questions or comments, please email me at author@mjblehart.com, or contact me via Instagram and Twitter at mjblehart, and on Facebook at blehartmj. Thank you to Fe Mahoney, the awesome artist who created my cover art. If you would like to commission work from her, email her at veinsofink2017@gmail.com. Please take a moment to check out my blogs, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, my articles on Medium.com as MJ Blehart, and my various published books on Amazon. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how awareness for everyone begins with you – and really is something that you can practice to live more fully and improve your life.
