How Mindfulness Benefited My Life

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Hey all,

So I have been doing mindfulness meditation for over a month (now switching over to "do nothing") and I wanted to share with you my findings. It really benefited my life in many ways. Although I still struggle I get much more joy out of the simplest things. If anyone of you has any other techniques or practises I would be very interesting to hear them. Here they are:

• Stopping multitasking completely. This might have been the biggest one. I found that I naturally stopped doing multiple things simultaneously. I realized that I was not only slower and less effective when multitasking but also was not enjoying what I was doing. 
• Eating mindfully. Probably my favourite one. Up to that point I always did something else whilst eating and then I was not satisfied by my food and wanted more. Chewing each bite, giving thanks and savouring food revolutionized my relationship to it. I now eat less and more slowly. I chew each bite 20 times and listen to my body for what it really needs. It  is also interesting to observe how your body reacts to certain foods. For example observing how cravings arise when you only had "simple carbs" for breakfast.
• Walking more slowly. Observing and perceiving your walk. Do not see it as a necessity to get where you want to go but rather as an experience itself.
• Curating what you consume. That does not only go for food but especially for media. I now curate what self-improvement videos or podcasts I consume and then focus on them completely taking notes and trying to understand everything that is said. That way I get so much more out of the content I choose to watch.
• Enjoying each moment and accepting what is. I am still struggling here but I begin to experience time spans where I am just present observing what I see or  just observing my mind. That alone made some of the monotenous tasks and sequences in my life enjoyable and interesting.
• Being comfortable alone. I now enjoy silence. Realizing that there is so much noise in the world silence is an experience on its own.

So thank you Leo for sharing this mindfulness practise with us. If there are other ways you made your life more enjoyable through meditation and/or mindfulness please share