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Dealing with emotions and feelings mindfully

HOW TO BE MINDFUL?: EXERCISE 7 – DEALING WITH EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS

2 Comments / Mindfulness and Meditation / By Sadia Saeed / October 16, 2012 February 9, 2023 / be in the present, dealing with negative emotions, How to be positive, how to reduce stress, mental health week 2012, mindfulness exercises, understanding feelings

Okay! So here we come to the end of the Mental Health Week with our last post, and all along we have made it a week of mindfulness for you and for us.

As promised in the last post, we are taking you into somewhat deeper levels of mindfulness since the last two days. In today’s post we will work on mindfulness with emotions and feelings. As in the last six days, we will do a small exercise to help you observe your emotions, mindfully. But before the exercise a little bit more on observing emotions:

How can emotions and feelings be observed?

You know when you are happy, sad, angry, disappointed and so on… Well how do you know? Maybe you will quickly answer “I just know”! But this is mindfulness week remember? We do everything with a pause…so I Invite you to try to not answer immediately! Take a moment and think on how you know what you feel. Think before you go on reading…

HOW TO BE MINDFUL?: EXERCISE 6 – LOOKING WITHOUT LABELING

Leave a Comment / Mindfulness and Meditation / By Sadia Saeed / October 15, 2012 January 20, 2023 / how to calm mind, how to stop thinking, mental health week 2012, mindfulness exercises, negative thoughts

We have already discussed in our first post for the mental health week, the exercise of creating present moment awareness through looking, through isolating one sense at a time and focusing on it in order to be mindful, or in the present.

Most of you who have been following the posts this week we are sure are already into the mindfulness groove. Hence for the last two posts for the week, we take you a little deeper into the mindfulness experience. Before I introduce you to today’s exercise, just a little background..

HOW TO BE MINDFUL: EXERCISE 5 – MUSCLE RELAXATION

2 Comments / Mindfulness and Meditation / By Inner Space Team / October 14, 2012 February 8, 2023 / how to do meditation, how to reduce stress, mental health week 2012, mind relaxation, mindfulness exercises

Back with the mindfulness exercise of the day – muscle relaxation. We usually associate mindfulness with relaxation. The idea of serenely experiencing the present, just as it is, without judging or evaluating the moment is soothing and relaxing.

Today, we will take this understanding forward and explain a relaxation technique which is about mindfully watching your body and relaxing it. We’ll call it, Mindful Muscle Relaxation. When most of us say relaxation, we mean relaxation of the mind. Even so, mental relaxation and bodily relaxation are not mutually exclusive. But more on that in a couple of days. For now, in this technique we will exclusively focus on relaxing the body, mindfully. Often our muscles have tensed up even without our knowledge. Pain in the head, back, shoulders is becoming increasingly common. This tension is the body’s way of coping with the continuous onslaught of stress. The body seems to prep up to deal with stress but rarely gets a moment of deliberate intentional letting go. Here is where mindful muscle relaxation can greatly help.

HOW TO BE MINDFUL: EXERCISE 4 – MINDFULNESS WITH CHILDREN

Leave a Comment / Mindfulness and Meditation / By Inner Space Team / October 13, 2012 February 1, 2023 / how to calm mind, mental health week 2012, mindfulness exercises, Parenting, parents and children, play therapy, positive parenting

You’ve been reading exercises on mindfulness since 3 days now. Hope you’ve tried some of the tips and techniques we suggested. If you have, you have surely felt some sense of peace while trying what we suggested. Today’s tip is based on mindfulness with children. Can children be trained to be mindful? Would they understand the concept and put it to practice? Yes, they can. If we introduce the concept of mindfulness to children in their way, using elements of their world, they will pick it up, gradually. In fact you’d be surprised to know how mindful children can be!!

HOW TO BE MINDFUL: EXERCISE 3 – MINDFUL EATING

2 Comments / Mindfulness and Meditation / By Inner Space Team / October 12, 2012 February 7, 2023 / how to be happy, How to be positive, how to calm mind, mental health week 2012, Mindfulness, mindfulness exercises

Mindful eating is a mindfulness exercise that sounds too simple to be true. Just think about it, “How can eating be mindful? And how can mindful eating help me in any way?” Let’s try to figure out ways in which food can be helpful in being more than just nutritious.

This is an exercise of simple breathing meditation

HOW TO BE MINDFUL : EXERCISE 2 – BREATHING MEDITATION

2 Comments / Mindfulness and Meditation / By Sadia Saeed / October 11, 2012 February 7, 2023 / how to calm mind, how to do meditation, how to stop thinking, mental health week 2012, mind relaxation, mindfulness exercises

Hi! Time for the next mindfulness technique – breathing meditation, or breath meditation.

This is an exercise that perhaps most of you may be familiar with. Typically it is called meditation through awareness of the breath. It’s the initial and simplest form of meditation.

HOW TO BE MINDFUL? – EXERCISE 1: AWARENESS OF THE PRESENT

Leave a Comment / Mindfulness and Meditation / By Sadia Saeed / October 10, 2012 February 1, 2023 / anxiety, how to be content, how to reduce stress, mental health, mental health week 2012, mindfulness exercises, peace of mind

The Mental Health week 2012 is here and just as last year (We highlighted 7 most effective Mental health tips during mental health week 2011), this year again we have a post a day lined up for you for all the seven days.

The theme we have decided to focus upon this time is mindfulness exercises, to help you understand how to be mindful. So every day, for a week starting from today, you will have one technique, one practice or exercise that you can reflect upon and attempt to enhance the joy of just living-mindfully.

mental health week 2012

HOW TO BE MINDFUL?: EXERCISE 7 – DEALING WITH EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS

HOW TO BE MINDFUL?: EXERCISE 6 – LOOKING WITHOUT LABELING

HOW TO BE MINDFUL: EXERCISE 5 – MUSCLE RELAXATION

HOW TO BE MINDFUL: EXERCISE 4 – MINDFULNESS WITH CHILDREN

HOW TO BE MINDFUL: EXERCISE 3 – MINDFUL EATING

HOW TO BE MINDFUL : EXERCISE 2 – BREATHING MEDITATION

HOW TO BE MINDFUL? – EXERCISE 1: AWARENESS OF THE PRESENT

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