Mindfulness is a wonderful practice with a host of benefits. When we engage in mindfulness, the world can seem like a different place—colors are more vivid, relationships more dynamic, and we are more focused on what we’re doing. It can seem like we’re more alive. However, many people who are committed to being mindful struggle with making it a consistent part of their everyday mindset. It’s easy to be mindful if we’ve just participated in a workshop or read a book about mindfulness, but our discipline may wane over time, and we can find ourselves distracted, worried about the future, and in firm control of the monkey mind.
How can we make mindfulness practices a consistent part of who we are? How can we build mindfulness into our psyche so that we don’t have to be on the see-saw between mindfulness and distraction? It can be difficult, but it’s not complicated. Like any habit, it comes down to creating a regular routine and sticking to it. It involves making mindfulness as much a part of your life as eating, working, or anything else you do every day without having to remind yourself.
