How To Incorporate Mindfulness Into Your Daily Life

Fully Experience The Moment.

You can set up and incorporate mindfulness everywhere in your life.

When you’re washing the dishes, doing your hair, putting on your clothes, eating lunch and even when you lay down in your bed at night.

The only thing you really need to be mindful is to be mindful.

When you’re washing the dishes, for example, really feel the water as it runs across your hands.

Feel the softness of the sponge as you squeeze the dishwashing soap out over the plate.

That alone is being mindful!

Smell the lemony odor of the soap and notice the motions your hands and arms are doing as you clean off the dirt of the plate.

And, again, you can do that anywhere.

You can feel your hands gliding through your hair as you put it into the most attractive position.

You can smell the freshness of the laundry detergent as you pull the T-shirt over your head.

You can taste the slight sourness of your lunch and feel your teeth sinking into the food.

And you can notice your body relaxing as you pull the soft covers over your body at night.

Being mindful is relatively easy. It’s just noticing as much as you can in the moment and experiencing it fully.

The only problem with this is that we forget we wanted to be mindful.

Our days are quite busy and hectic.

It’s because of that that I would highly recommend setting up a trigger.

Things happen that we have to deal with and we cannot remember everything we wanted to do, much less for such a thing as being mindful.

Keeping a rubber band around your wrist, putting a stone in your pocket or setting up an alarm on your phone to remind you to be mindful.

Every time you notice that rubber band, stone or alarm you take just 1 minute out of your oh-so-busy day and fully experience the moment you’re in whatever that moment is!

It’s in practicing this in any and every situation that you incorporate mindfulness more and more into your daily routine.

And, before you know it, you’re being randomly mindful in the worst possible situations, turning them into the best!

Originally published at http://quora.com.