4 Reasons Mindfulness Will Help You Become the Best Version of You in 2022.
There are 4 solid reasons that mindfulness will help you become the best version of yourself in 2022. Being mindful is critical to building meaningful relationships. Mindfulness will make us better people. Furthermore, it allows us to make smarter decisions about our lives and all the lives of those around us. Mindfulness is one of the 4 Foundations of Thinking Deeply Self-Critically and becoming the best version of yourself.
Working in the helping field for over 20 years I have come to realize the following. It’s vital to not just have but to create healthy relationships with those in our lives. I am convinced this can be done with mindfulness along with clarity, creating conditions, and instilling hope. Mindfulness is sometimes a hard concept to swallow. The way I use mindfulness is by looking through the lens that we are mostly wrong in our thinking. Specifically, we are wrong about other people’s realities. As humans, we typically misdiagnose problems in our lives and the lives of others. This is typically due to having a lack of accurate information about us, others, or a situation.
Mindfulness can put us in check.
It helps us challenge our biases, attitudes, values, and beliefs about ourselves, the situation, and especially the other people involved. Here is a more concise definition of Mindfulness as you get into this website. It’s considering the possibilities of what we are thinking at this moment is a misdiagnosis of the profound conditions in front of us. A person needs to work to get to the heart of the problem and even then, we still need to practice being mindful.
When thinking of mindfulness, we may think about meditation, clearing our thought, focusing on one thought or just breathing. We need to use mindfulness at the moment during every situation and with every person. How we do this is by looking through the lens of “I don’t have all the answers, but I am going to open my mind to get a better result than what I have now.” Thinking this way moment by moment will help our thinking evolve. Not only that but it will help us get to a place of developing competence and then true compassion for the situation and people involved.
Furthermore, consider even if we reach a level of competence and compassion there is still more to learn or more wisdom to gain. Never stop learning and understanding. There is no end to mindfulness it’s a constant growth if we allow it to be. Here are 4 things to consider that will help you be mindful
1 Mindfulness helps you Breath
Breathing does a ton for us especially if we are in a tense situation. It brings oxygen to our bloodstream which then brings oxygen-rich blood to our brain. As a result, it helps us with our ability to critically think. Breathing will help calm your body. In addition, once our body begins to calm, we can more easily emotionally regulate. When our emotions are regulated or in control, our ability to critically think becomes enhanced. We can make decisions in an emotional state above all, we typically make even better decisions when we are thinking clearly. Lastly, the takeaway is breathing will enhance your overall mindfulness but there is more than just breathing.
2 Mindfulness will help you accept that you are mostly wrong
If we are critical of ourselves we would understand we are mostly wrong about situations involving others day to day. Once we gain acceptance about this it will take us to a new level of thinking that we have never had before. Gaining acceptance that we are wrong is difficult but what it does is opens our eyes to so many more possibilities. In a way, it gets us unstuck and helps cultivate our growth. It allows us to ask questions that we never would have in the past. In other words, asking questions gives us much more clarity which builds our competence and creates a condition of compassion for those we are serving.
The takeaway from accepting we are typically wrong about others is this; considering becoming the best version of us takes other people and all people’s errors especially us and it’s completely okay to be wrong about others just acknowledge and move the relationship on so you can reach a more meaningful place.
3 Mindfulness allows both people to feel whole when leaving the conversation
Once you have worked on considering the possibility of what you are thinking in a particular moment is a misdiagnosis of the profound conditions in front of you. Then you can begin to grow. You can grow by using purposeful interactions with those around you. It’s important for those in our lives to feel whole as well as us. Communication with others doesn’t have to be complicated. It starts with us being flexible and open-minded to new ideas and possibilities. It’s important to be good at reading others. We need to learn to pick up on signs that our communication isn’t working and fix it. Furthermore, we then have a responsibility to create conditions that fit the moment that minimizes harm. An example if you can see what you are doing is leaving another person angry you have to change up your interaction and help them feel whole.
4 Mindfulness gets us to where we need to go
Being mindful is difficult sometimes in the sense that we get stuck in our values and beliefs. If we want to help or serve others we need to get vulnerable and even endure some suffering. No one likes their values challenged and we are no different. Being mindful will allow us to put our defenses down. At a time it’s important to our growth and the growth of others. Growth is the ultimate goal to help us get where we want to get. Without it, we stay stuck. Lastly, by being mindful and letting go of our values, attitudes, beliefs, and judgment we can cultivate a condition of growth. growth moves us where we need to go.
Conclusion
Thinking Deeply Self-Critically is the profound application of mindfulness, creating conditions that do not harm, through constantly seeking clarity to gain competence and compassion while instilling hope in others. Mindfulness is one of the Foundational components of becoming the best version of us. Mindfulness is considering the possibility of what we are thinking at this moment is a misdiagnosis of the profound conditions in front of us. If we want to take our thinking to a higher moral ground then we must be mindful of what is happening around us. We also must come to an acceptance that what we are thinking might be wrong. Furthermore, we need to take time to breathe. We must create a condition to help other feel whole before during and after our interaction. By doing this we will be able to move to a different place in our thinking and our behaviors or actions. Lastly, we will be able to build deeper meaningful relationships with others in our life.
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