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How mindfulness helps.

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There are several ways in which mindfulness practice produces its benefits, a greater awareness of

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our thoughts and emotions when we practice paying attention more and opening to our reality, we begin

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to know ourselves better.

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We give ourselves the space required to recognize how we are thinking and feeling.

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And because we accept reality as it is, we don't deny our own experience.

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Better control of our emotions, greater awareness of our internal experiences helps us interrupt and

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helpful trains of thought like rumination and resentment.

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Adopting a brilliant focus also tends to be coming, which can loosen the grip of runaway emotions.

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A different relationship with our thoughts.

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Our minds are continuously generating thoughts as we allow these thoughts to come and go during mindfulness

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practice, we start to give less weight to them.

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We learn that they are simply ideas created by our minds and not necessarily a reflection of anything

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meaningful.

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Decrease reactivity.

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As our relationship with our thoughts evolves, we become less prone to have two reactions, which are

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often not in our best interest.

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Mindfulness can provide a boost before we act on our initial impulse, giving us enough time to choose

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a response that fits our goals and values.