Mindfulness can be defined as the ability to feel whole, integrated, and connected to your inner self and the world around you.
Through mindfulness, you can build a life of worth, meaning, purpose.
Through mindfulness, you can improve your ability to reduce negative emotion, increase positive emotions, clarify values, and make sure your transactions match what you value.
Meditative and contemplative practices are a part of mindfulness. They afford you the possibility to do things with intention, think things with intention and feel things with intention.
Through meditation and mindfulness, you can learn to observe the world around you and observe what happens within you, without judgment. By letting your experience come in and out of your awareness, you can feel more available for this present moment.
By clarifying your language and by describing accurately that which you perceive, you can reduce pain and suffering. You can discern the qualities of the moment. With wisdom, you can determine what to do in the moment to make your life more effective.
The capabilities of mindfulness and meditation can be learned. You can practice mindfulness and mediation daily to move yourself towards a more integrated version of yourself and in the quest to improve your quality of life.
Daily practice with intention, with creativity, with wonder, and with curiosity shakes the sticky grip of past traumas on the present moment and places these traumas gently back into the past where they belong. By calming down the noise of the past, you can think, feel, and do with clarity in the present.
The expression of grief, sadness, frustration, fear and/or disgust can be felt as you radically accept the moment. The feelings of joy and happiness often follow a sigh of relief or a moment of laughter. You recognize your courage, your resilience, and your grit with a newfound familiarity of someone who has survived many challenges. With the ability to placing trauma in the past, you can feel joy, love, happiness, and a new opportunity to begin living again.
For over fifteen years, I have been practicing meditation called coherence breathing. I have done this every day for over 15 years. Through this meditation, I’ve noticed that I can slow down hyper-vigilance, see things as they are, and cultivate my wisdom to feel better inside my mind, my heart, soul. I feel available to participate in the world around me. The integration has been life changing. The meditation effects carry over to daily life.
Additionally, I use Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills of:
Mindfulness, so I am more aware and available in the present moment.
Distress tolerance. so, I can cope well with life’s daily stresses.
Emotion regulation, so that I can be better equipped to handle tough emotions and change negative emotions to be positive.
Interpersonal effectiveness, so that I can build high-quality relationships with self-respect, while meeting objectives.
I combine Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and coherence breathing meditation with principles of educational psychology, and the tenants of social entrepreneurship to help build a life of worth on personal, social, and professional levels. The combination has helped me to seek out:
Mastery so that I can learn to increase my capacity-building across life’s domains.
Beauty so that I engage in self-care and positive life opportunities.
Personal awareness so that I can understand how life’s elements help me feel calm or energized.
Self-regulation and problem-solving abilities improve as wisdom improves in thought, feeling, and behavior. They feed off each other in a positive feedback loop.
Mindfulness and mediation are foundational pieces to wisdom. Insight, understanding, and skill afford an individual the capacity for sustained effectiveness across life’s domains.
As a psychologist, it is my aim to offer these capacity building strategies and tactics to clients, so that they can find their own agency, overcome trauma, be available, and make an impact on the world.
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