What does it mean to be mindful?

Everyone has the ability to bring their undivided attention to what they are doing in the present moment – this is a natural ability. Being mindful is learning how to extend and maintain those moments of focus for increasing amounts of time. Mindfulness is taking the natural ability to focus, and converting it into to a skill through gentle guidance and practice.

These skills can be used at any time during the day, when extra attention or a calmer, kinder attitude is beneficial.

Mindfulness can be used whenever you have a strong emotion or you want to make progress towards a goal or accomplish a task.

At Growing Minds, we teach techniques to help you train your brain. After repeated practice, neural connections develop which help to access your internal super powers, and to cultivate constructive habits of thinking and behaving.

Mindfulness can be used whenever you have a strong emotion or you want to make progress towards a goal or accomplish a task. It is an essential and foundational skill for creating and sustaining relationships. And a set of skills for cultivating a greater sense of emotional and physical well-being.

At Growing Minds, we teach techniques based on advances in neuroscience (and contemplative practice??) to help you train your (amazing?) brain. After repeated practice, neural connections develop which help to access your internal super powers, and to cultivate constructive habits of thinking and behaving.

The interesting thing about mindfulness is that we often start out practicing for ourselves. And what invariably happens is that through us, it benefits the world around us.