When we mindfully pause and set resolutions that connect to our intentions and values, we give our resolutions the necessary booster to step into living in alignment with the changes we want to see. Learn how mindfulness can help you set more clear intentions for your life's goals.

7 Days of Mindful Intentions

The Power Of Intentions

Many people this time of year are setting New Year's resolutions. These are generally focused on results we want to achieve in the future. For example, I want to lose 20 lbs., or I want to go to bed at 10pm every night, or I want to get a promotion by next year, I want to be in a relationship, I want to be less distracted by my phone...

Awareness

Curious Observation

Cognitive Flexibility

Attitudes of Mindfulness

Focus

Daily Ritual

Even with an intention that we are passionate about, and have a deep longing to move toward, it will not likely be a straight path to achieving it all of the time. There can be endless reasons for not living into our intentions, as we intended.

New Year New Routine

One of the powerful things that a short-term cleanse or detox does is that it rallies our enthusiasm and attention on a new healthy behavior so that we can reset our body, appetite or routines. By focusing on what new healthy routine we're following, we're also crowding out, or detoxing from, a behavior or habit that isn’t working well for us.

New Year, New Routine

Identify Your Intentions

Even when they're reasonable and admirable suggestions for how we should be, if they don't fully resonate, we end up making changes based on someone else's dreams, ambitions or life goals...not our own. When we're trying to be someone others want us to be, but it is not aligned with our own values and desires, this doesn't bring fulfillment and actually causes distress.

Let Your Intention Grow

It is easy to forget how much effort and time mastery, or even adequacy, takes. We often bring an attitude of impatience to the process of learning new things, and this can increase our frustration, feelings of demotivation, and squelch the joy we may have initially felt about learning something new.

Straying with Kindness

It’s almost inevitable that we’re going to stray away from our intentions and goals from time-to-time. This might be because the current habit we have is so strongly ingrained that feels like there is a magnetic pull to go back to some behavior or attitude that isn’t aligned with what we want now. Or it might be that we’re doing great for a while and become over-confident in our new habit and don’t plan for moments of temptation.

Straying With Kindness

Big Changes In Small Steps

It's natural to feel overwhelmed when we begin something new. Because it's new, we likely are unclear on all of the steps it will take to get there, how long it will take, the obstacles that are bound to pop up. And as we focus on all of the unknowns and make assumptions about how hard it's actually going to be, we become overwhelmed and unmotivated.

7 Days of Mindful Intentions

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