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tinybuddha.com
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things I want or need to do. Mindfully completing a simple household task can be like skipping a pebble on a pond, sending ripples of Zen into the day. If you’re also interested in forming a mindfulness practice in your home, I recommend the following: 1. Let your bed set the tone for the day. Making the bed is sort of a no-brainer for me. Leaving it unmade feels as unnatural as leaving my house without pants. However, I know it can be tempting to leave the sheets and blankets crumpled to jump [...] be calming and even gratifying when you throw yourself into them completely. After an hour of cutting—my boyfriend planned an ambitious Mexican meal for my family, who we’re visiting—I felt almost as relaxed as I do after yoga. Okay, so the mid-prep margarita may have contributed to my mellow state, but I’m convinced the chopping had a lot to do with it. I’ve decided to get more deliberate with my household tasks; to actually schedule them, instead of squeezing them between things I want or [...] I liked this post very much. I have often found satisfaction in housework and your exercises reminded me to practice this more often. But, I am with you on the cooking and wondered why I can’t bring a meditative approach to it like the cleaning. I think it’s because cooking requires more skill and I am afraid of doing it wrong. Maybe I can try to make some soup this fall and just be present with the ingredients, aroma, texture, etc., and not worry so much about results. Thank you for this.
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Hi, and welcome to the Headspace housework exercise. So the beauty of mindfulness is that we can apply it to everything and anything that we do in life and housework is, or for most of us, it's probably not that enjoyable. But if we see it more as an opportunity to train the mind it actually becomes a very pleasant thing to do. So as we're doing it, of course still allowing thoughts to come and go, but bringing our attention to the act of cleaning or vacuuming or washing, whatever it is at the [...] much as possible, just putting those things aside, putting them down for a moment and giving your full attention to whatever activity, whatever type of housework you're about to begin. Could be washing the dishes, could be cleaning up, might be laundry. It could be ironing, vacuuming. We all tend to have certain preferences and often we kind of approach housework just wanting to get past it. So the way to begin this exercise is by taking a couple of nice, big, deep breaths. So if you do this by [...] Evergreen yellow banner
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Housework doesn’t have to be a chore—it can be a chance to train the mind by placing attention on the task at hand. Explore how to reframe the work you may consider a burden, to the extent that even cleaning, washing, and vacuuming may even become a pleasant experience.
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September 23, 2024 ·
Yes, even household chores can be turned into mindful moments!
🧘Mindfulness isn't just something you practice during meditation—any activity can be mindful when you focus on the motions and sensations.
When cleaning, you can practice this by fully engaging yourself in the task while appreciating the care you're giving to your space. [...] When you're out on a walk, focus on the sensation of your feet touching the ground, the rhythm of your breath, and the sights and sounds around you.
Create opportunities for calm, clarity, and connection, no matter how busy life gets. 🌿
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lifehacker.com
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Essentially, you can use the time spent doing chores as a mini meditative session to promote your own mindfulness. The key is to focus on what your doing and what it feels like in each moment. They have to get done, so why not get more out of your chores?
Washing Dishes to Wash the Dishes: Brief Instruction in an Informal Mindfulness Practice | the journal Mindfulness via Wall Street Journal
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Patrick Allan [...] > Mindful dishwashers evidenced greater state mindfulness, increases in elements of positive affect (i.e., inspiration), decreases in elements of negative affect (i.e., nervousness), and overestimations of dishwashing time. Implications for these findings are diverse and suggest that mindfulness as well as positive affect could be cultivated through intentionally engaging in a broad range of activities. [...] The practice of mindfulness meditation has shown to have countless benefits, and that’s why researchers at Florida State University wanted to see what normal activities could promote practicing it in your daily life. In their study, half of the participants were primed to be mindful of the dish washing sensory experience, and the other half were primed to focus on proper dish washing techniques. Here’s what their results suggested:
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Do kids need special tools or apps for mindfulness?Not at all! Mindfulness can be practiced with just your attention, a quiet space, and simple exercises. That said, apps or guided meditations can be a helpful supplement, especially for children who enjoy audio guidance or visual prompts. But household items like a stuffed animal for belly breathing or a coloring book for mindful coloring work perfectly too.
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Mindfulness helps kids develop focus, self-awareness, and emotional regulation. By learning to notice their thoughts and feelings without judgment, children can respond to challenges more calmly, build empathy, and improve their overall well-being. [...] How to do it:
Tip: You can make it a scavenger hunt with a checklist. Kids love checking off boxes while practicing mindfulness.
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### 4. Mindful Coloring
Give your child some crayons and watch the magic happen! Coloring engages their attention, encourages calm, and provides a quiet, focused moment in the day.
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Pro Tip: Keep a “mindful coloring corner” in your homeschool space for quick calming breaks.
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I don't necessarily mean specific mindfulness practice like meditation, but activities where you find it easy to be present and focused instead
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mind.org.uk
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The above examples are not the only ways you can practise mindfulness. So many activities can be done mindfully.
Different things work for different people, so if you don't find one exercise useful, try another. You can also try adapting them to suit you and make them easier to fit in with your daily life, such as mindfully cooking dinner or folding laundry. [...] Set aside regular time to practise. Regular, short periods of mindfulness can work better than occasional long ones. If you struggle to find the time, try choosing 1 or 2 things you already do daily, and do them mindfully. For example, you could practise mindfulness while doing the washing up or taking a shower. [...] If you want to try mindfulness, you don't need any special equipment for the following exercises.
### Mindful eating
This involves paying attention to the taste, sight and textures of what you eat. Try this when drinking a cup of tea or coffee for example. You could focus on the temperature, how the liquid feels on your tongue, how sweet it tastes or watch the steam that it gives off.
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medium.com
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To be entirely fair, my house isn’t that dirty, but it already feels out of sorts. And when you know what something looks like at its best and most optimal state, anything less just feels plain wrong.
Wrong like sitting down to work with a mound of laundry staring at you or a dusty surface teasing you with its frothiness. [...] Sign up
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# 5 Mindfulness Exercises You Can Do While Cleaning
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My house needs a deep clean again.
I promise you I cleaned it a week ago.
It will always amaze me how quickly crap can accumulate in such a short amount of time. [...] Now I feel compelled to wipe down that surface if only to eliminate it as a distraction. But once I do, I will find 5 more chores to do, and despite my efforts to procrastinate productively, I will be stressed out because I have so many chores that endlessly repeat themselves and distract me from my actual job.