Finding ‘me’ time can be difficult with our daily responsibilities. So, even though you might take time to meditate daily, completely recharging requires more than a few minutes of self-healing each day.
Total immersion into the well-being of your mind and body can refresh you and provide the energy to continue your daily rituals.
That’s what mindfulness is about; its two parts are acceptance and attention. By adding this technique to your meditation routine, you can teach yourself calm that will last long after your meditation session has ended.
Family-friendly resorts like Soap Lake Natural Spa & Resort offer the perfect venue to spend time with your family, relax, recharge, and refocus so that you return to the hustle and bustle of your busy life, re-energized.
Additionally, the waters of Soap Lake have the highest mineral content of all but four other lakes worldwide. Soaking in mineral-rich water has been used for centuries to ease the pain of arthritis, psoriasis, eczema, and acne. In addition, the minerals in the water heal and smooth your skin.
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Finding moments of peace in our hectic lives can be the difference between living a life of happiness or constant turmoil. In addition, practicing mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and relaxing in a mineral bath benefit your health in many ways.
When thinking of meditative practices, we usually only consider ourselves. However, including your partner, family – or both – on your journey toward a healthy mind, spirit, and body may be the very getaway you need to take together to recharge.
At Soap Lake Natural Spa & Resort, we have more amenities than meditation, the practice of mindfulness, and yoga. There’s beach volleyball, sand toys for the kids, watercraft rentals, and frisbee gold for all ages!
So, if you have a member in your party that finds chilling out to be something different than meditation, there are activities to keep them busy, too.
What is mindfulness?
Although mindfulness and meditation are often used interchangeably, they are different. Mindfulness is a technique used to help you tune into your life experience in the present moment when meditating and when you are not. Mindfulness can be practiced all day long and will teach you to listen to your body better than you have in the past.
When used with meditation, mindfulness is a technique to find awareness of your breath, the sensations of your body, feelings, and thoughts.
The goal of mindfulness is to bring yourself into a state of calm relaxation, which is what our natural state would be without the outside stressors of life. However, practicing mindfulness takes time because it is a learned technique that can be used while meditating and calming your mind and body.
Practicing mindfulness teaches you to accept yourself by pushing away negative thoughts while cultivating an attitude of acceptance. When used with meditation, you can reach a level of peace that may be unavailable otherwise.
The Benefits of Mindfulness
The benefits of mindfulness are a healthier mind and body due to your attention to its needs. We need more than food and exercise to stay healthy, and learning mindfulness, whether when meditating or not, can increase your overall well-being by releasing stress and clearing your mind.
Mindfulness is awareness of the present, the here and now. It can teach you to let go of the past, worry, anxiety, and judgment. Meditation and mindfulness practiced daily will give you peace in the middle of the storm, no matter your situation.
Benefits of mindfulness include:
- Improved memory
- Improved attention
- Stress reduction
- Pain reduction
- Relief from depression
- Better sleep
- An overall feeling of well-being
- Improved relationships
- Increased productivity
As you see, the benefits of mindfulness, when used with other healthy life habits, have many benefits and very few, if any, liabilities. Getting healthy and staying healthy requires more than good food. It requires healthy practices, and using mindfulness as a life tool benefits your mental and physical health.
How to Practice Mindfulness
Like any skill, mindfulness must be practiced daily to enjoy its benefits. Whether you practice while meditating, or working your way through your day, learning to practice mindfulness takes time. It also requires attention to your body, thoughts, and feelings.
The following tips will help you journey toward a mindful life and a more peaceful existence with yourself, your family, friends, and even strangers.
To begin, commit to your journey to learn to be mindful. Since mindfulness is a way of observing and perceiving, the practice can be developed with meditation, exercises such as yoga, and deep breathing exercises that help cleanse your body.
- Develop a routine for practicing mindfulness.
- Find a quiet place to be quiet and still and take a seat
- Set a certain amount of time for your mindfulness session. Keep the time down to five or ten minutes if this is a new practice for you.
- Sit in your chair with your feet on the floor, or you can sit loosely on the floor or in a lotus position. However, if you take your seat, be sure you are in a place you can comfortably stay for a few minutes.
- Be quiet in your seated position and feel your breath as it goes in, out, and back in.
- As you breathe, your mind will wander away from that activity into other places. Once you notice that your attention has walked away from your breathing exercise, return your attention to your breathing and continue long, slow breaths, in and out.
- Do give yourself a hard time for a wandering mind; just come back and realign on breathing. Don’t judge yourself for inattention to breathing because you will learn to calm your mind and focus, whether doing breathing exercises, meditation, or finding a comfortable yoga position.
You’re finished with your exercise! That is how you practice being mindful. It is not a complex undertaking, but it does require intent and time to practice your mindfulness exercises several times a day if possible.
The ultimate goal of practicing mindfulness is to still your mind and focus, no matter how stressful or complicated the task is. Mindfulness is an exercise that can make you healthier in mind, spirit, and body and, overall, a better you.
Mindfulness Should Continue After Meditation
Unlike meditation, mindfulness can and should be practiced all day and during meditation. As mentioned above, mindfulness is not meditation but an exercise that can become a tool for more profound meditation that is more beneficial.
At Ananda.org, they speak of business people and executives practicing micro-mindfulness. This mindfulness practice helps you get through the day, stay focused, and stay on task.
What is micro-mindfulness?
It is precisely what it says and is accomplished by practicing mindfulness in small bits, all day long, and even when waking and going to sleep.
Micro-mindfulness will help you release your mind from negative thoughts, past hurts, and future trepidation. If you work hard to develop this skill, mindfulness is a learned behavior that takes practice and attention.
Although spoken with the word meditation, mindfulness comes from the medicine of psychology instead of being a spiritual practice. However, the two approaches marry well and can help you become healthier and happier.
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Are you the only family member interested in partaking in meditation and mindfulness practices that give you what you need to lead a fulfilled life? Or is everyone in the group ready for this peaceful retreat? Practicing mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and partaking in mineral baths can give you a new perspective.
That’s not a promise when visiting Soap Lake Natural Spa & Resort. However, it is an attainable goal, and here’s why. You will develop a healthy mind with meditation and mindfulness practices, giving you a healthier body and a more peaceful existence.
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At Soap Lake Natural Spa & Resort, we offer a peaceful location where you can meditate mindfully, join other visitors in a yoga class, or take a boat onto the waters of Soap Lake. Here you can find several activities or a place where you can be quiet.
And best of all, we cater to children and adults and are one of the few family-friendly resorts and spas that offer our particular amenities.
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