Mindful Mondays is designed as an opportunity for you to start your week off with rest and intention by taking a pause and practicing a guided mindfulness exercise with others. All you need to do is show up online (MS Teams), turn your phone off, and just be! The meditations are approximately 15 minutes long. You are welcome to keep your camera on or off, just please keep yourself muted.
Mindfulness Defined:
Paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, non-reactively, nonjudgmentally and openheartedly as possible (Jon Kabat-Zinn).
When to Integrate:
• Maintaining internal and external composure – creating space between you and your surroundings (Bubble) • Clearing your head at nighttime • Creating positive energy • Hitting the reset buttons between meetings • During your commute • This training is only as good as you make it for yourself
• We can practice bringing our mindful attention to daily activities that are often performed mindlessly.
• We can pay attention to the movement of the body, and the sights and sounds around us.
• Perhaps pick one of these activities to serve as your “call to mindfulness” during the day:
Key is to practice mindfulness with consistency.
Book Recommendations:
Hanh, T.N. (2017). The art of living: peace and freedom in the here and now.
Williams, M & Penman, D (2012). Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
Zinn, J.K. (2005). Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
App Recommendations:
Insight Timer; Calm; HeadSpace; Inscape; Stop, Breathe, Think; 10% Happier