Worry is something that many mothers say that they do frequently. Often worry masquerades as planning and preparation for possible, though unlikely, adverse events. Coming back to the moment and re-engaging your attention helps to reduce the stress and tension that comes with your mind projecting into and living an event that hasn’t happened yet.
It is just reality that anxiety and tension will arise at times, whether you want them to or not. If you try to ignore them, you may escalate the very feelings that you’re trying not to experience.
Another aspect of mindfulness is to learn to feel comfortable with a wave of anxiety. If you say “No, no I don’t like this feeling, quick make it go away, practise some mindfulness” what you may be doing is feeding the fear and anxiety and making the very thing you’re trying not to experience more intrusive. Learning to feel comfortable with that feeling is an important thing, to soften your attitude to it, to not beat yourselves up for experiencing it because it might be entirely natural that you have these thoughts and feelings. And that’s alright.
Firstly, we would like to share some of the main aspects of mindfulness. Secondly we would like to share a psychological approach to managing stress and distress. Finally we will share with you one easy way of making yourself accountable to increase the frequency that you participate in activities that make you feel great.