3 Mindfulness tips to introduce more peace, energy and power into your life

Over the last several years, meditation and yoga have rapidly expanded into mainstream consciousness, as companies like Calm, Headspace, Peloton, and Nike Training Club have made these practices more accessible and approachable. Many people have extolled and discovered firsthand the virtues of these practices, from reducing stress or anxiety, to improving sleep, to increasing mental resilience, to developing insights, and beyond.

The concept of mindfulness has also increased in recognition, but nowhere near to the same degree as meditation and yoga. According to Google trends since 2004, yoga has out-ranked mindfulness in the number of Google searches by 64:1 and meditation has out-ranked mindfulness by 10:1. When considering that mindfulness is such a fundamental underlying structure for both meditation and yoga, this seems a bit strange. Additionally, mindfulness can be practiced in virtually any application — not only during yoga or meditation — which makes the benefits achieved from mindfulness even more accessible to humankind.

So what is mindfulness?

The Oxford dictionary defines mindfulness as: “a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations…