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Can you Make it to the End of this Article Without Looking at your Phone? How often do you turn your head to catch a glance of your phone? When you start noticing, you may be surprised how often it is. A few years ago, I became aware of the frequent movement of my neck and realized that my phone was training me. From that point on, I decided to take control by self-imposing limits on my phone time. We are training our brains to attend to shorter and shorter time spans. Phon

My mindfulness practice informally started by cultivating breath awareness doing yoga where I realized that paying attention to my breath helped me relax. However, you don’t need a yoga practice to incorporate breath awareness. You can begin by using 3 conscious breaths as transition points throughout the day. I started incorporating mindfulness into my life off the yoga mat by briefly stopping other activities and paying attention to 3 full breaths. I envisioned the breat

When we tune out our emotions to focus on our never-ending to-do lists, our bodies hold onto the stress of those emotions

With mindfulness, you can make positive shifts by focusing on items that bring you joy, rather than scanning for problems.