Practice relaxation and calm your body

Use relaxation exercises when you need to relax or when your body is tense up.

They can be used to advantage before you go to sleep.

Practice meditation and experience great calm and balance

Mindfulness really just means attention.

An attention that is directed towards what you do while you do it.
It is paying attention to what is going on in your head your body and around you.

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Mediation and body scanning

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Exercise a little (almost) every day

You train mindfulness by practicing a mindfulness exercise daily.

It does not take much before you feel the effect and value of your mindfulness training.

I would recommend doing a mindfulness exercise 15 minutes 5-6 days a week.

By training in this way, you will already achieve a good and lasting result after a few weeks.

But mindfulness is not just a technique or the exercises themselves.

Mindfulness is an attitude to life and an awareness of attention and presence that you bring with you around everyday life, no matter what you do, whether you are alone or with others.

With the daily training, you learn to pay attention, and you will be able to let go of the autopilot and return to the presence - whenever you want. So you will be able to stop before you act.

Most of us live a busy and perhaps hectic life, that's how it should be. But where the chain jumps off and it often goes wrong is when you are too busy and you can no longer relax and find peace and be present.

So therefore it is important to train a little every day, as it requires practice - and practice makes perfect.

Learning mindfulness requires training through mindfulness exercises and preferably mindfulness meditation.

Research has shown that mindfulness has a major effect on stress, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and depression.