5 Tips for Practicing Everyday Mindfulness

When you get up in the morning, what’s the first thing you do? Is it — grab your phone and look at your notifications?

How about your lunch break — do you savor each meal, or spend the time catching up on emails?

Perhaps you find yourself running on autopilot most of the time.

It can be hard to focus your attention in a world that expects you to constantly multitask. But by living more mindfully we can live more intentionally. And bringing mindfulness to each day doesn’t mean adding an additional task to get to. Practicing everyday mindfulness is just about noticing our thoughts, feelings, and experiences as they happen — throughout our day!

Here are 5 simple ways to practice everyday mindfulness:

1) Wake Up Mindfully

As you transition from sleep, reconnect with your body and the breath. Notice how it feels to move from sleep to wakefulness.

You can take a few deep breaths and notice where you feel it the most. Do you feel the sensation more in your nostrils? Or do you feel your belly rise and fall?

Taking a few breaths as you begin to wake up will help ground you in the present moment, instead of jumping headfirst into all the things on your to-do list. And if you do find yourself…