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Holistic Wealth: What is Mindfulness?
By living mindfully, we are training our brains not to be reactive to negative emotions — which is critical to overcoming difficult situations and achieving holistic wealth .
Mindfulness is a state of being fully present in the moment without distractions or judgment of the present circumstances or others around us. It means fully embracing our environment with all our five senses and not getting caught up in negative emotions by thinking about the past or worrying about the future. In living mindfully, we are training our brains not to be reactive to negative emotions — which is critical to overcoming difficult situations.
In my book, Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons To Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity and Happiness, I state the following:
“After my husband died, I had a habit of compulsively reconstructing the events of the night in question — something that consumed and haunted me. It was as if I were on my own planet. Not really present here with everyone else, but in my own world reconstructing the scenes in Technicolor: the nurses shuttling around in the emergency room, dispensing medication, checking charts, the sharp smell of formaldehyde in the air. For about a year afterward I smelled formaldehyde everywhere. I had firmly situated myself in the past, not being mindful of the present”. — Holistic Wealth: 34 Life…
