When Mindfulness is Hard: Essential Tips for Beginners

November 24th, 2022

By Nikki Harper

Staff Writer for Wake Up World

Mindfulness meditation can change lives. From an enhanced sense of oneness with the world to the easing of depression and anxiety, through to the physical benefits on physiological stress levels, heart health and healing, there are a thousand and one reasons to practice mindfulness. But if you’re a total beginner, is it really as easy as ‘just sit there for a few minutes and day and be aware of your surroundings’? Nope. Not at all.

Getting started with mindfulness can be tough. There’s always something else to worry about it, something else to do, somewhere else to be. You might sit to meditate once in a blue moon and then wonder why it’s not working, or you might constantly put it off, deciding to start your mindfulness practice ‘tomorrow’, ‘next week’, ‘once this project is done’. The truth is that the only good time to start a mindfulness practice is NOW – and here are some top tips to help you get started and stick at it.

1 – Make Time for Mindfulness

If you’re going to get started, you’re going to have make it happen. That means prioritizing your desire to start a mindfulness practice and not constantly putting it off or letting it slide down your list. Of course you’re busy. But if you ever have time to sit down and watch TV, read a book, have a coffee, daydream or even brush your teeth, then you have time for mindfulness – it’s simply a matter of choosing to undertake this process. Start today. Read a basic guide to what mindfulness actually is – like this one – and then choose to begin.

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