Enjoy a Mindful Christmas
As Christmas and New Year approach, instead of staying home to spend a sweet day with families, we may also reward ourselves a Mindful Christmas Day as a gift to our mind and spirit.
Focus on the present moment
Through mindfulness practice, we focus only on the present moment with full consciousness and without judgment. This would improve our awareness and understanding of ourselves and ultimately develop wisdom and love. Simply speaking, mindfulness allow us to be more aware of our body, mind and spirit for better care.
‘Unknown challenge is yet to come, we may always choose to really take good care of ourselves, especially at Christmas and send our warm regards to anyone around.’
Mindfulness helps you to get along with the problem
Mr. Stanley Chan, Educational Psychologist of New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, admitted that mindfulness is not about finding the solution, but more of a technique to assist participant to coexist with the problem. Take insomnia as an example, most of us were likely to become nervous when we fail to sleep, worrying that inadequate sleep would adversely affect our performance at work. At such time, we may try to focus on the status of our body and mind by practising mindfulness. When we start practising mindfulness, it would be easier for us to be aware of our thoughts and could try to find a way to calm ourselves down. Gradually, sleepiness grows and time of insomnia would be greatly shortened. And we may not be that afraid even if we could not fall asleep immediately.
Advantages of mindfulness
Proven by many scientific researches and medical studies, mindfulness has displayed outstanding result in raising our physical and mental health status:
- Scientific researches show that practising and experiencing mindfulness would result in visible changes in brain tissue. Such phenomena is called ‘Neuroplasticity’.
- Statistics reflect that mindfulness does not only reduce distraction in brain activities, but also strengthen the brain cognitive control ability.
- Practising mindfulness is able to effectively and constantly enhances the vitality of left prefrontal cortex. Continuous positive emotions may also reduce tonsil reaction caused by pressure and worry.
- Mindfulness is beneficial to study and memory, gearing us up for more upcoming challenges.
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