4 Tips For A Daily Mindful Practice

In this episode, we are going to share 4 Tips For A Daily Mindful Practice. We are learning how to be present, paying attention…being intentional! These are practical and easy to implement right away. More mindful business practices to add more calm and less stress. You get to choose how you want your life to be. My podcast can be found on over 13 platforms.
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Hey there,

So this is episode 128 and we're going to talk about four tips for a daily mindful practice.

So grab your smoothie or cup of tea and join the conversation.

Let's go.

Hey there,

So we talk about mindful living.

We're talking about just learning how to be present,

Really just paying attention to what's going on around you,

Your thoughts,

Your movement,

All the things.

You know a lot of times you may be doing something and you may drift off somewhere,

You may be having a whole other little conversation or you may be in a conversation that happened last week when you should be focused on what's going on right in front of you.

I know it's easier said than done a lot of times but it takes practice.

That's why we said practice,

This is a daily mindful practice and I want to give you four tips.

That's kind of odd,

Usually I give like five tips,

No three tips,

I usually get like three tips,

Yeah three tips or I think I've given six maybe before,

I don't know of different things,

Not you know but usually I stay with the three ways or three tips because I don't know I really like the number three so I usually gravitate to that but today I'm gonna give you four so you get extra today.

So four tips for a daily mindful practice,

The first one is super super simple and it is mindful walking.

Mindful walking,

Now we do this all the time,

You get up,

Go to the bathroom,

We'll get you something to eat,

If you have to walk to the break room,

If you're working in a building or wherever or walk into the coffee shop or get you a smoothie or the coffee stand,

I like to see those cute little coffee bars,

The little trailers people you know I met someone that renovates or creates a whole new little frat bars and all that stuff so it's pretty cool.

So you may have those food truck type things in your area where you could just you know walk outside and walk across the street and maybe walk up to the stand and get your favorite drink in the morning or walking from the parking lot to the restaurant whatever it may be but what I want you to do is to be intentional as you are getting ready to get up you become aware of what you're doing you get up you stand up really pay attention to your body pay attention to your posture did you have to really sit up you know sometimes you can be slouched over but did you like have to like sit up out of your chair like now I'm sitting up out of my chair you're paying attention to your body maybe your feet were propped up maybe put your feet flat on the floor when you raise up when you rise up is there pain even in your body do you feel sluggish you feel dizzy do you feel energized want you to pay attention to those cues in your body and I want you to take a little pause and then just breathe just take a deep breath and then go to your dead your destination this is something that you can do every single day you're just taking notice instead of just kind of getting up and like flopping around you can actually get up and take a pause for a moment and just notice how you feel notice the sensations in your body notice your breath all of that so that is tip number one I hope you're taking notes here okay but if you're not taking notes you can always always go back and listen to this podcast again which brings me to the second thing is the second tip is mindful listening so the second tip for daily mindful practices is mindful listening a lot of times someone may be talking to us but we're so excited to share what we're thinking about we may miss all the juicy details may miss all the tea may miss exactly what that person is trying to explain to you or even just trying to get to know someone how about just taking a break for a moment when someone's talking and just really listen with intention you're gonna try to understand instead of react or respond you're gonna listen with intention if it's hard for you to pay attention when someone's talking because you know sometimes they can go way out there you know I know you know because you listen to this podcast sometimes I may go way out somewhere but you may want to just listen to the key words get the key words of what they're trying to convey and this is showing an act of kindness and love and really be in be all there be all in the conversation so that's tip number two before I give you tip number three I want to remind you that these podcasts are weekly podcasts so make sure you share this with a friend I just realized that this podcast has been listened to listened to over 28 different countries all out there it's reached about 28 different countries it's reached six continents if you want to count Antarctica than at seven but or if you don't although we can go all into we can go down the rabbit hole about all that but six continents how cool is that so if you feel led please consider giving a donation of any amount the information is included within this podcast show notes if you scroll to the bottom you'll see it at this podcast in the podcast area please consider giving a donation this helps me with my podcast fees my hosting fees of course and to better serve this community so thank you thank you thank you for your financial support in advance so now we're going to go to number three so the third tip for daily mindful practice is the body scan now this is also a meditation if you're interested in actually going through a guided meditation on the entire body then you can find me on insight timer as always I always include all the information on where you can find more of my meditations in the show notes I usually have a link that directs to my website and it has more information on the insight timer that's a meditation app where you can find more of my meditations and there is a meditation on there dealing with the body scan meditation but right now we're going to deal with the body scan in general so with the body scan the whole point is to really just scanning your body you are tuning in to each part of your body so you're going to let your mind just go go there so if you're sitting there typing at your desk start thinking about your fingers and how do they feel as you're typing are they cramping up maybe you need to stop just for a few seconds and just stretch your hands a little bit maybe and then you can restart you may want to go focus on your feet how do your feet feel are they feeling cramped maybe you need to like you know roll your your ankles or whatever you have to do to get more comfortable or maybe your legs are starting to cramp you're noticing your legs stiffening up you might need to get up and stretch a little bit but you are taking the time to listen to what your body may need from you I know you've heard all these terms before but it's really just pay attention you're paying attention to your body at that time what is your body telling you if it's hurting is saying you need to stretch me out please you know if it's to the point where it's hurting that means you have not been paying attention to that part of your body and you need it is begging for you to pay attention take notice and give it what it needs okay so that was number three and the third no that's number three and the fourth see I'm telling you I'm so used to giving you three three different things for whatever so the fourth number four drum roll please the fourth tip for daily mindful practice is meditation okay I saved the best for last that's just in my opinion you don't have to take my word for it but practicing mindful meditation is one of the main ways you can become more mindful throughout the rest of your day if you start this practice early early in the morning it can be in your bed it can be beside your bed wherever you can you can fit this in do it just be reminded it doesn't have to be a formal practice you do what you can do it's all about positioning your mind a lot of times people get so caught up on the position of the body that they miss the position of the mind you can have the best position the Lotus position you have the best well you know some people say the Lotus position but you can have the best position sitting making sure your back is upright your hands are open to receive and all the things but your mind could be on what happened ten years ago but then you may have someone who is lying flat in their bed and they are so intent they're so focused and they're focused on their breathing in and out and they're relaxed and they're tuning in so whatever position physically works for you oh I challenge you if you don't do but one of these different tips for daily mindful practice I want you to try mindful meditation because it is a great way to get present you can do this before you start your day as soon as you wake up set your you set your alarm you wake up you can set a few minutes whatever minutes that you have I mean I have a five minute meditation if you only have five minutes if you want to hear my voice and guiding you you can find that also an insight timer if you want to sit in silence by yourself that's great too I do that a lot too I don't spend I don't do a lot of guided meditation I did the most when I went through my training and I went through a mindfulness based stress reduction training and so most of those were guided meditations because it was more of our training showing us how to like get through but a lot of when you get comfortable and confident to actually do those things without someone guiding you or just because you want to then do that there's no rules to say you can't you or you can't or you have to do things a certain way so you just want to make sure you are learning how to breathe and relax so when you add this mindful meditation we add that block of time it can set you up for a great day if you look at some statistics it talks about a lot about how it helps to reduce stress helps to manage stress it helps helps your body feel more relaxed you can feel more focused it can change some things in your brain there's a lots of research to back this up so while we're here let's take a few deep breaths all right so just stop what you're doing right now if you're not able to get away to a more quiet space you can take that moment just breathe but if you're able to let's just take some deep breaths so we're gonna do three and I want you this time to do it on your own without me guiding you so I'm gonna give you a few seconds to get situated and then we're going to begin okay so this is what's gonna happen I'm going to tell you when to begin and I want you to just do some deep breathing and just take a moment to focus on your breath without me guiding you and then after I'll just kind of take a pause and then you'll hear your you will hear my voice again and then I'm gonna talk you through a little mantra effort slash affirmation that I want you to speak over your life all right so go ahead and begin your deep breathing at this time we are going to repeat a little affirmation to set you off right positively high vibrationally for your day every day repeat after me my mornings are bright and magical because I meditate my mornings are bright and magical because I meditate my mornings are bright and magical because I meditate I want you to leave this space believing what you just affirmed for you until next time learn to love and learn to serve bye for now