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How can we practice mindfulness like any habit?

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Be more mindful takes practice.

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There are two major categories of mindfulness practice activities designed specifically to engage mindful

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awareness and bringing mindfulness to our ordinary life activities.

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Formal mindfulness practices.

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The most common formal mindfulness technique is sitting meditation.

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It involves choosing something to focus on for a set amount of time and opening to the experience as

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it unfolds moment by moment.

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The most common target of focus is our breath, which is always with us and always happening in the

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prison.

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Our attention will drift to other times and places, or we will start engaging in judgments of how we

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are doing or whether we like meditation.

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The practice is simply to return to our intended focus once we realize we've lost that.

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This focus on coming back to our present moment without criticizing our minds for wondering, is there

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a sense of meditation and other common types of meditation can entail a focus on bodily sensations,

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body scan, meditation, ambient sounds or wishes of health formal practices?

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I'll also include more active exercises like yoga and yoga.

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For example, we can pay attention to the physical sensations, including the breath that is synchronized

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with our movement.

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Awareness and acceptance promote choice.

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One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment,

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how we avoid being here just as we are.

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That's not considered to be a problem.

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The point is to see it.