How To Improve Mindfulness Guided Mindfulness Exercise For Beginners Mindful Moments with Shirley Archer

You may be wondering how to begin mindfulness meditation. To learn how to be mindful, you need to be present. So you ask, how to be more present? To be present, you need to cultivate awareness. So, how do you improve awareness? You use your SENSES. This exercise shows you how to begin to expand your awareness by cultivating your senses.

This is beginners mindfulness meditation. Through this guided mindfulness exercise, I introduce mindful awareness. This exercise improves your attention and focus, and helps you to simply be in the present. By anchoring in your body and breath and focusing on what you experience with your senses in this moment—in each moment—this is how you start being mindful.

This simple, easy to do, exercise enhances mindfulness and is an excellent preparation for a meditation practice. I am trained in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program and am a certified meditation and yoga teacher. You may think that to start meditating you need to jump immediately on to a cushion. I have taught thousands of people over the years. The best way to begin is to start small and increase your awareness steadily. I invite you to enjoy.

You can practice this exercise wherever you are for a few minutes every day...on the train as you commute, in your office, in your home, wherever you may be. Sharpen your senses, feel your breath, really experience where you are in this moment here and now.