The Benefits of Mindfulness

Practising mindfulness helps you:

• to be fully present, here and now

• to experience unpleasant thoughts and feelings safely

• to become aware of what you’re avoiding

• to become more connected to yourself, to others and to the world around you

• to become less judgmental

• to increase self-awareness

• to become less disturbed by and less reactive to unpleasant experiences

• to learn the distinction between you and your thoughts

• to have more direct contact with the world, rather than living through your thoughts

• to learn that everything changes; that thoughts and feelings come and go like the weather

• to have more balance, less emotional volatility

• to experience more calm and peacefulness

• to develop self-acceptance and self-compassion