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“The realization that you have control and influence over your own life is a key concept you will need to understand to practice mindfulness.”

Practicing mindfulness makes you a better person. It nurtures your personal development and allows you to peel away layers of incorrect thinking that don’t serve you well and replace them with layers of healing and truth that nurture your wellbeing. Following is a list of ways in which mindfulness can help you become better.

Mindfulness teaches you to raise your conscious awareness. Raising your conscious awareness is a choice to live at a higher, more spiritual level. When you connect with your inner Spirit, all the information you receive on a daily basis is filtered through sensory impressions, rather than emotional reactions. This provides a deeper, truer understanding of the situation and prohibits you from making decisions based on false perceptions that are clouded by emotion.

It is your responsibility to take control of your mind. If you let it think whatever it wants to think, it will relentlessly and anxiously pace back and forth like a caged animal reasoning, worrying, tossing around ideas all day long. The only way to tame the wildness of your mind is to intentionally focus it to what you want it to focus on.

Mindfulness enables you to release potential grudges before they have a chance to stew and fester. Grudges breed resentment. Without resentment, you free yourself of the baggage that is created by guilt, shame, regret and hurt.

When you live in unity with Spirit you open the door to creativity. Inspiration, freshness and uniqueness is all contained in Spirit. It is impossible to be fully alive without a connection to your creative self.

The way you judge others is always in direct proportion to how you judge yourself. When you raise your conscious awareness you begin to recognize your own self-judgment. Recognizing how you judge yourself is a gateway to freeing yourself from self-judgment.

Judging yourself and others is a waste of time and completely fruitless. Seeing the truth of who you are rather than beating yourself up or blaming others is the way to freedom.

As you connect with your breathing and become an observer of your own thoughts without censoring them, you accept yourself. If you judge your own thoughts or censor them, they will settle deep within you and you won’t be able to learn and grow.

If you accept your thoughts without judgment then you will be able to put your finger on what it is that is disrupting your peace and causing you stress and anxiety. Often the only way to say goodbye to something is to first say hello to it.

Mindfulness doesn’t stop negative thoughts or feelings but it does make you question whether they are true or not. Much of life is about perception, how you perceive events. Without mindfulness, negative thoughts can turn into road blocks that stop you from reaching your full potential. Mindfulness teaches you to choose your perceptions based on truth and to see events for what they really are.

Psychological wellbeing is achieved when your self-awareness and self-esteem are optimized to such an extent that you can experience freedom and fulfillment. It is by experiencing freedom and fulfillment that you become happy.