Here is a list of ways to practice mindfulness in daily life. Choose and give their attention without reservation.
1. When you wake in the morning, notice your breath before getting out of bed. The quality of our breath tells us much about our state of being. When breathing is slow and steady, we are calm and peaceful. When breathing is tight we are tense.
2. Before getting out of bed, note your thoughts. What was your first thought on waking? This practice helps us get in touch with what's on your mind.
3. Whenever possible, eat in silence. Before eating, think of all those involved in the provision of food - farmers, truckers, people on the supermarkets. We offer gratitude to all those people.
4. Note the environment: sun, rain, wind, trees, images and sounds. On the way to work, school, appointments and other everyday things to be aware of driving your car, walking, sitting on the subway, on the way, is the mind and thoughts. If you are in the present moment, or think ahead to what you're doing? Notice of the body and allow your breathing to help relax your shoulders, soften your face.
5. Notice when you can not stop the pressure to push where you're going and just enjoy the process there.
6. In practice, aware, conscious breath all day at work, sitting at a desk, computer desk, while talking on the phone and in person.
7. Let yourself calm and peaceful.Use cows daily as reminders to pay attention: the doorbell, the phone rings on your computer, turn on a light, looking at your watch or clock hour.
8. Additions meals carefully.
9. As you leave your daily activities, take a moment to appreciate what you've accomplished and consider how you interact with others.
10. Consider your return trip as a time of transition from your daily activities and your time at home.
11. Be aware of your breathing, smile, feel the quality of your thoughts and feelings.
12. Approach your return and the people you come home, calm and kindness.
13. You can use breath awareness - awareness of time - as a foundation to encourage mindfulness of daily life that you use as the basis for your living room and walking meditation practice.
14. Eat meals without doing anything else. Eat them sitting rather than standing or in the car or traveling.
15. As you go to bed and get ready for sleep, breathe, be aware of your body and relax, and get rid of daily activities and your expectations for tomorrow. Consider other ways to watch your life and share them with us.
