Why Should I Try to Regularly Practice Mindfulness Meditation?
Regular mindfulness meditation practice creates a happier, healthier, more productive mind. A 2018 study compared the effects of a six-week mindfulness training program to those of a half-day mindfulness seminar. They measured productivity, attentional focus at work, work-life conflict, and job satisfaction. Both groups saw a significant improvement in productivity, but the six-week program group saw significantly greater attentional focus at work and decreases in work-life conflict, and marginally greater improvement in job satisfaction than the half-day group. To summarize, a brief mindfulness program does have merit, but regular practice over an extended period of time creates instrumental improvements (Slutsky 2019).
How do I use this website?
For best results you should progress through this program as recommended by the week numbers on each page of content. If you can spend the suggested amount of time on each section of the program, you will likely see the benefits of the practice as described above.
What Can I Find on this Website?
This website contains a beginner-friendly mindfulness meditation program which will help you develop mindfulness skills through guided meditation recordings, templates to track your experiences, and tips for improving your practices. It includes an introduction to mindfulness, as well as week-by-week escalation of complexity in practice techniques to help you learn to be effectively mindful.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally. —Jon Kabat-Zinn