Bridgette Diutlwileng | Mindfulness

Bridgette Diutlwileng chats to us about how integrating mindfulness improved her quality of life

Juggling major responsibilities with a high profile job and being a single mother of three busy boys, Bridgette Diutlwileng found meaning in the practice of mindfulness. She shares with us how she has benefitted and how it this has helped her remain focussed and calm in often hectic environments as we as how she teaches it to her children.

Mindfulness is a very simple form of meditation that was little known in the West until recently and is about observation without criticism; being compassionate with yourself. When unhappiness or stress hover overhead, rather than taking it all personally, you learn to treat them as if they were black clouds in the sky, and to observe them with friendly curiosity as they drift past. Over time, mindfulness brings about long-term changes in mood and levels of happiness and wellbeing. Scientific studies have shown that mindfulness not only prevents depression, but that it also positively affects the brain patterns underlying day-to-day anxiety, stress, depression and irritability so that when they arise, they dissolve away again more easily.

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*Source: franticworld.com/what-is-mindfulness/