26 Affirmations, Mediation, & Mindfulness
Affirmations, meditation, and mindfulness are three powerful tools to improve your spiritual and mental health. We will explore each of these tools in this chapter.
Affirmations
Affirmations are positive statements that can help you combat negative thoughts and overcome challenges. Watch Create a better future with the power of ‘I am’ to learn more.
Meditation & Mindfulness
Read What Is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness seems to be the “catch phrase” lately, wouldn’t you say? Have you learned about it? Have you tried it? I have! And it has made a significant change in my life. As we watched and learned about stress and anxiety above, see how mindfulness plays into our overall sense of well-being.
This short video on the University of California, Berkeley’s website will better explain it.
The best part of mindfulness is that it doesn’t need to take very long. One of the top techniques to work on mindfulness is meditation – for as little as 10 minutes a day. This TedTalk explains how,
Here is another great TedTalk on the topic.
Try it Out
After watching this video, select one of the activities below to give you a taste of what we mean when we talk about mindfulness. These activities will also be a nine square activity option.
Optional
If you are interested in learning more about mindfulness, here is a great resource – an entire program you can complete (but not required for this class) Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Here are some other excellent videos (again, not required – but worth the time.)
What’s the Difference?
Now that we’ve covered meditation and mindfulness, what’s the difference. For starters, you need mindfulness to do meditation, but there are many ways to be mindful without sitting down and meditating. Read these articles to learn more about the difference.