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Mindfulness to Create Positivity is NOT Selfish
Being aware of yourself makes you more aware of everyone and everything else, too.
I do not doubt that many people see the idea of mindfulness practice as selfish. Putting your self-awareness ahead of others is counterintuitive nowadays to how good people approach life.
I would argue that mindfulness is certainly not selfish because it helps you to be even MORE aware of others. Why? Because mindfulness starts at you and expands outwards from there.
If you are not aware of your own thoughts, feelings, and actions in the here-and-now, odds are you are living subconsciously. What does that mean? It means that rather than being fully conscious of your mindset and headspace you are allowing your subconscious to do the driving.
How does that work? When you are just going about your day-to-day routine and not working to be mindful, your subconscious absorbs an unbelievable amount of data. All sorts of things that you might consciously avoid or filter out embed themselves in your subconscious, coming from the internet, the people around you, your environment, TV, radio, and so on.
This can all-too-easily put you into a negative headspace. Between the coronavirus and how it’s impacted the world, politics both in the United States and abroad, climate change and so forth…
