Mindfulness In Daily Life: How To Live Mindfully - by Anisha Maheshwari

COURSE

Mindfulness In Daily Life: How To Live Mindfully

With Anisha Maheshwari

What if mindfulness could become more than something you practice during meditation? You may understand the benefits of mindfulness, but still find it difficult to stay present when you're stressed, distracted, busy, or experiencing difficult emotions. This course explores how to bring mindfulness into daily life, so it becomes more than a meditation practice. What you'll learn Discover your deeper why for practicing mindfulness. Learn how to stay present when your mind wanders or life gets distracting. Bring mindful awareness into your daily routines and activities. Explore 11 qualities that support mindful living, including curiosity, patience, acceptance, non-judgment, kindness, gratitude, and trust. Learn how to relate to difficult thoughts and emotions with greater awareness and compassion. Develop simple reflection practices to help mindfulness become part of everyday life. What you'll get 8 practical audio lessons Reflection prompts for before, during, and after meditation Practical mindfulness exercises for daily life Stories and metaphors to deepen understanding A guided meditation for working with difficult emotions Who is this for? Perfect for anyone who: Is new to mindfulness and wants to understand how to practice it meaningfully. Has a meditation practice but struggles to stay present in daily life. Finds their mind constantly distracted, busy, or caught in overthinking. Wants to respond to stress and difficult emotions more mindfully. Wants to bring mindfulness beyond meditation and into everyday life. When can you use these practices? Use them during your morning routine, meditation practice, busy days, stressful moments, or difficult emotional experiences to reconnect with your intention and present-moment awareness. What you'll take away A clearer understanding of why mindfulness matters, how to practice it, and how to carry it into everyday life. The goal isn't to become perfectly mindful. It's to learn how to notice when you've drifted and gently return. This course is for educational and self-help purposes and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment. Music credit: The Inner Calling by Music of Wisdom. Image credit: Rattakarn via Pixabay. Video credit: by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay


Meet your Teacher

Anisha is a psychologist, life coach, and certified mindfulness meditation teacher based in India. She holds a B.A. (Hons.) in Applied Psychology and an M.A. in Psychology, along with professional training in mindfulness and evidence-informed therapeutic approaches. Her mindfulness practice has been an ongoing journey of exploring how awareness can extend beyond formal meditation and into the way we relate to our thoughts, emotions, challenges, and everyday experiences. As a teacher, Anisha combines psychological insights with mindfulness practices, reflection, and practical exercises to make mindfulness accessible and relevant to everyday life. Her approach is gentle, practical, and compassionate, encouraging learners to move beyond simply practising mindfulness and discover how it can become a way of being.

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8 Days

108 students

4.8 stars

20 min / day

Presence

English


Lesson 1

My Mindfulness Story

This course introduction shares a personal story about my mindfulness journey. It explains the benefits of mindfulness beyond temporary relaxation. It highlights 3 key elements: understanding the motivation behind practicing mindfulness, staying present with the object of meditation, and cultivating the right mindset to guide your responses. It emphasizes applying mindfulness in daily life, not just during meditation.

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Lesson 2

Deciding Your Direction: In The Meditation Room

This lesson explores motivation as a compass for meditation. It teaches you how to find a deeper motivation for meditation and live more intentionally. It guides you to identify your "why" for meditating, which will help you determine what to focus on. It includes reflective prompts that can be used before, during, and after meditation, helping you stay connected with your motives. These prompts help you gain clarity about your motives before each session, assess if your motivation is realistic during the session, and reflect afterward on its impact.

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Lesson 3

Deciding Your Direction: In Daily Life

This lesson teaches how to integrate the element of motivation into daily life. It suggests a 3-step process. First, you'll learn to set morning intentions for qualities you want to embody, desired feelings, and key actions. This will help you stay aligned with your goals and live your life purposefully without making major changes to your busy schedule. Then, it includes reflective prompts for engaging in activities throughout the day. Finally, you will reflect at night on your motivations and how they impacted your day.

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Lesson 4

Staying On The Trail: In The Meditation Room

This lesson compares meditation to a hike. Your focus (breath, mantra, etc.) is the path, and distractions are like scenic detours. If you struggle with thoughts like "Am I doing this right?", this lesson highlights the basic mindfulness process along with how to deal with any obstacles, helping you navigate the process with more ease. It provides prompts for reflection before, during, and after meditation to help you regain focus and then stay focused. These prompts guide you to identify what distracts you, enabling you to gently bring your focus back to your anchor point (breath, mantra, etc.).

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Lesson 5

Staying On The Trail: In Daily Life

This lesson involves practical suggestions to incorporate the element of "being" into your daily life. It provides morning and night reflection prompts. We'll also explore daily practices that can be easily included in a busy life to train your attention to be more focused. It also includes prompts to reflect on your attention throughout the day to help identify patterns and cultivate present-moment awareness. Finally, it shares a process of being present with your inner world and coping with challenging times.

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Lesson 6

Embracing The Journey: Maya's Story

This lesson explores the importance of mindset in our daily life using the story of a girl named Maya and her dad, who go on a hiking journey. It highlights qualities like a beginner's mind, curiosity, gratitude, and non-striving to enhance the experience of meditation and daily life. Acceptance, patience, non-reactivity, and non-judgment are emphasized to navigate challenges with grace. Kindness, common humanity, and trust foster a sense of connection with oneself and the world.

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Lesson 7

Embracing The Journey: 11 Mindset Assessment

This lesson offers prompts to evaluate whether you incorporate each of the 11 mindsets in your mindfulness practice and daily life. The 11 mindsets discussed are: beginner's mind, curiosity, non-striving, letting go, kindness, patience, acceptance, non-judgment, gratitude, trust, and common humanity. If you lack a particular mindset, this lesson offers sample statements for each mindset that you can incorporate before starting meditation or your day to cultivate it in your practice and daily life.

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Lesson 8

Embracing The Journey: Guided Meditation For Difficult Emotions

This final lesson guides you through a meditation to address difficult emotions using the different mindsets mentioned in the previous lesson. The meditation helps you: Identify a recent situation and the emotion it triggered. Accept the emotion without judgment. Let go of unhelpful thought patterns. Feel the emotion with curiosity and patience. Trust your ability to handle the emotion. Recognize the universality of emotions. Offer kindness and compassion to yourself. Express gratitude for the experience. You can use this meditation repeatedly to help you respond mindfully & process your emotions.

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4.8 (4)

Recent Reviews

Suzie

July 11, 2025

This was a great mindfulness course. Thanks Anisha!

Glenn

November 18, 2024

Thank you

Philippa

June 21, 2024

This course is wonderful, presented with such kindness and compassion. It's been an invaluable journey into the true nature of mindfulness. Thank you so much.

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