MPDR Archives Blog Post #255 - May 16, 2015

Pause to FEEL  the next 3 breaths

flowing in and out of your body.

“Smiling may seem like an involuntary response to something cute or funny but it is much more than that.

Studies suggest that smiling, forced or not, can have a positive effect on your mood, decrease stress levels, and even make everyone around you feel better.”

-Alyssa Detweiler

Excerpt from post "9 Surprising Reasons Why You Should Smile More”

The post elaborates on the following 9 benefits of smiling.

1. Smiling is contagious

2. Smiling lowers stress and anxiety

3. Smiling releases endorphins

4. You’ll be more attractive

5. Smiling strengthens your immune system

6. You’ll be more approachable

7. Smiling will make you more comfortable

8. You’ll seem more trustworthy

9. You’ll be a better leader

If you are curious to find out more about how smiling can provide these benefits, and have the time, please click on this link to find the full post:http://inspiyr.com/9-benefits-of-smiling/

Wishing you

and those around you

the  benefits from your smiles today

Lee

M. Lee Freedman, MD,CM, FRCP(C)

http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/

Welcome to new recipients of Mindfulness Practice Daily Reminders

As many of us have experienced, mindfulness is pretty simple, but not so easy and remembering to practice mindful awareness can be quite challenging. 

These daily reminders are intended to help us remember our intention to practice present moment awareness through formal and informal mindfulness practice.

Opening a reminder email represents a decision to pause, step out of automatic pilot mode and into the here and now by intentionally bringing attention to the sensations of three breaths. Then proceed with your day.

You may choose to treat this as an experiment by noticing if and how this brief pause impacts on the next moments of your day.

The second part of the reminder email consists of a quote, poem, image, link to article and/or link to short video relevant to the practice of mindfulness. The images included in the emails have all been created from my mindfulness practice with a camera. 

I suggest consciously choosing whether you have the time and/or the interest in reading/watching anything further, rather than automatically clicking on the link.  In this way you are practicing bringing mindful awareness practice into conscious decision making and action.

The mindfulness practice daily reminders that have been sent out since July 2014 are now archived on a blog called MPDR Archives.  Here is a link to the first entry that describes the history of and intention for the reminders.http://mpdrarchives.blogspot.ca/2015/01/welcome-to-archives-of-mindfulness.html.

Please feel free to share these reminders with others who may be interested.  If you know anyone who would like to be included in the list of recipients of the reminders, please ask them to email my assistant at drmlfreedman@hotmail.com.

Please let me know if you would like to remove your name from the email list at any time.