Mindfulness is the moment-to-moment awareness of your physical, mental, and emotional state, all through a lens of curiosity and non-judgment. Many people employ mindfulness techniques to evoke a sense of calm through grounding themselves in the present. Regardless of where you feel your mental health is at the moment, mindfulness can enrich your life in both smaller and more significant moments. If you worry that you are too busy to incorporate new meditation or mindfulness practices into your busy life, I have good news for you: You can incorporate mindfulness into your life while essentially continuing your busy, packed life as is! Here are five mindfulness hacks for adding mindfulness to your current daily schedule.
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Busyness: The Socially Acceptable Drug
When we don’t intentionally integrate mindfulness practices into our lives to re-center and to cope with difficult emotions, it is actually easier to remain busy and to distract away from what is going on below the surface with us. I believe that one of the most common and incredibly damaging coping mechanisms of highly competent adults is to stay busy. To throw ourselves into more and more work, to consistently have to-do lists we are attending to, to join commitment after commitment, to feel unable to say “no” to requests, to need to be busy in order to feel worth something or to feel important.
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