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Practicing Mindfulness — Thoughts, Feelings, and How They Impact your Paths in Life
Breaking down the roots of mindfulness for conscious reality creation for more clarity.
What is mindfulness?
It is the awareness of your thoughts and feelings. You gain recognition in the present of what you are thinking, as well as what and how you are feeling. (The intent of actions is a part of mindfulness as well, but I’ll get to that later).
Mindfulness doesn’t just cover your thoughts and feelings alone. It also goes deeper. Mindfulness delves into your psyche, your overall mental, emotional, and spiritual makeup.
Being mindful, in a nutshell, is ultimately being aware of you.
Because of how society tends to work, people live more subconsciously than consciously. What does that mean? It means you do things by rote, you live within and by a routine and just go with the flow.
To be fair, there are times this is a good way to be. But not all the time, because your subconscious mind lacks filters your conscious mind has.
Consciously you filter the information you take in. Subconsciously you do not. As such, all the negative energy and distressing news you come across embeds itself more easily…