The Art of Mindfulness: A Path to Well-being

With PTSD Awareness Month, I learn the importance of practicing mindfulness with https://www.ptsd.va.gov/appvid/mobile/mindfulcoach_app.asp. My goal is to practice mindfulness and evaluate benefits to improve stress, thoughts, emotions, rest, relax, concentration, focus, blood pressure, brain, immune functioning, acceptance, knowledge, awareness of body, breath and senses, compassion, loving-kindness, eating, listening, looking and walking. 

  With mindful eating, I feel improvement in stress with slowing down and thinking more carefully with the process of eating, creating a calmer feeling, and more relaxed about the challenge of eating, changing my focus to the process of eating encouraging brain connection to the process of eating, listening with taste, looking with compassion with touch at the apple and then sandwich with yellow pepper, garden greens with low fat mozzarella cheese with English muffin and then drink with milk. A beluga whale glided in the Sebastian River and surfaced then swam off toward Riverside Park and fish began to jump helped me to feel loving kindness. Birds, cardinals and doves began to comment including a pileated woodpecker. Sirens began to wail. With another mindful eating session, I feel compassion for connecting while eating and getting nutritional needs met with everyone.   

  With mindful walking, I think about lift and step of my walking in rhythmic motion. I feel a moment of rest with turning around and relax into listening to the rhythm of the walk with paced walking with Google Fit, looking to make sure my walk is safe and understanding awareness of PTSD Awareness Month and how the structure of the apps support awareness of family neighborhood connections with love for my efforts to prevent and reduce heart disease with pulse and heart rate monitoring with apps. 65 pulse rate before exercise, 78/72 with 2 30 minutes paced walks, 77/88/71 Heart Rate Monitor - Pulse App - Apps on Google Play; 78/76/72 Blood Pressure App: BP Monitor - Apps on Google Play. With second 30 minutes paced mindful walking, I focused on stepping natural and relaxed with lift and step. I felt shifts between listening with ear buds to the quiet tones to help reduce stress and the family neighborhood connections. How I healed PTSD symptoms: instead of being bothered by negative beliefs and feelings, and distant from others, I chose to apply the respect bookends with STAIR app technique with friendly respectful focus and regroup with ACT ideas for support with loving kindness for my efforts to reach out with PTSD Awareness Month to be respectful of healthy boundaries while also encouraging awareness of how to heal PTSD symptoms.