FREE MINDFULNESS PRACTICES FOR DAILY LIFE
We spend a significant part of our days operating on autopilot including our thought patterns which can be negative and harmful as well as positive and useful, but we can something about the negative ones – the free mindfulness practices below do just that.
Free Mindfulness Practices to help break the unwanted negative automatic thoughts.. These thought patterns are either positive and useful or negative leading to stressor anxiety. Below are a few
Daily life can become overwhelming especially on the days when it overtakes us and it seems like nothing goes right. Before you realise it, you feel you’re drowning under the weight of negative thoughts that leave you stuck in a stressful repetitive loop of stress, anxiety and insecurity leading to tension.
Because humans evolved to anticipate and avoid danger, our brains focus, by default, on negative information (perceived threats).
Research shows we absorb a negative comment or experience five times more quickly than a positive one and this bias is reflected in the body’s hormonal systems. The stress hormones connected to negative experiences (cortisol, adrenaline and noradrenaline) are all fast-acting and have powerful effects on the body. But, the equivalent positive hormones (such as oxytocin) lack the same potency and urgency and this is why it is so easy, when stressed, to feel as if things are spiralling out of control.
These are a few techniques that might help you to introduce mindfulness into your daily life and help you to step out of your normal ways of thinking thus reducing stress and tension.
