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Mindful Awareness And Meditation Practices

An Option Or An Essential?

By Josette Veltri SOLUTION: The following are 10 of the many ways 9. Have a self-directed and meaningful conversation
we can incorporate mindful awareness and meditation with yourself throughout the day.
“We don’t have a practices into our daily lives to prevent burnout, 10. Practice a Spiritual meditation – using essential
vaccine for our mental compassion fatigue and mental exhaustion: oils to remain focused on your higher power when
health like we do for our 1. Know your window of tolerance (stress level) that direction and guidance are needed.
physical health….” said is when to call a time-out break or when to say, “I’m done
Lisa Carlson, immediate for today”.
past president of the 2. Practice a 2, 5, 10 minutes or longer Loving-
American Public Health Kindness meditation to fill your cup of self-compassion
Association and an so you can provide compassion to others.
executive administrator 3. Set boundaries, know when to say YES and when
at the Emory University to say NO thank you.
School of Medicine in Atlanta. And, with that being said, 4. Practice a Zen meditation – follow your breath,
we can expect to see an increase in physical burnout, a relaxing into the rise and fall of your belly, allowing your
rise in emotional compassion fatigue, and more mental mind to just be.
exhaustion IF we are not incorporating some sort of 5. Let go of yesterday’s un-resourceful choices without
mindful awareness and meditation practice in our daily judgments. Mindful Awareness and Meditation Practices, an
lives to explore and express our thoughts and feelings. 6. Practice an Insightful meditation – setting an option or an essential? You decide!
Dr. Andy H.Y. Ho, award-winning social scientist, intention to focus on throughout your day.
educator and psychologist reminds us that integration 7. Self-validate – be present and mindful to Josette Veltri, a Boca Point resident, is a certified educator
of mindfulness practice creates a platform for self-care immediately acknowledge your accomplishments. and coach on loss and transition. Her purpose, to assist clients
and support which could cultivate sustained resilience, 8. Practice a Mantra meditation – focus on and heal and move forward so they can go from I Can’t to I Can, One
compassion and growth. He states, “The practice repeat a word or phrase throughout the day to control Step at a Time. She can be reached at josette@nextstepnewstart.
of mindfulness does not require an expensive gym your fluttering thoughts. com (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josettejveltri/.) 
membership that is rarely used, it only requires us to be
present in the here, in the now, in the present moment….”
Many of my readers know I am not a doom and gloom
reporter but after attending multiple stress-related webinars
I was both alarmed and reassured. Below find 2 questions
that if answered truthfully are telling and they are followed
by information that is encouraging IF mindfulness,
meditation and self-care are practiced on a daily basis. Wednesday, June 21
1- How do you start your day? (a) I watch repeated
news reports, (b) I practice a 2 to 3-minute mediation
exercise. If you answered (a), you are setting yourself
up for overload and irritability. If you answered (b), you
have set yourself up to notice what you are noticing so
you can catch and reframe unresourceful mind chatters.
2 - How often do you pause throughout your day to
connect/reconnect with you? (a) I have no time to take
time-out breaks and go from task to task, (b) I check-in
throughout the day and after completing my tasks. If you
answered (a) you are setting yourself up for burnout. If
you answered (b), you are living mindfully aware of your
emotional states, adjusting/readjusting thoughts, feelings
and actions.
FACT: Stress that continues without relief can lead
to a disturbance of the body’s natural balance leading to
physical symptoms. The research found that prolonged
stress is linked to heart disease, cancer, lung and liver
ailments, accidents, and more.

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