Mindfulness Techniques to Relax and De-Stress

When you think of mindfulness, you probably think of an overall sense of positivity and well-being. You may also think of a lot of meditation and essential oils, or creating a positive environment around you. Mindfulness, though helpful in those areas, is also beneficial to someone who is trying to reduce their daily stress and maintain a relaxed lifestyle. Here are some mindfulness techniques that can be used in your daily life to reduce stress. 

Journaling with Purpose

Journaling is one of the biggest aspects to mindfulness techniques. The reason for this is based on the idea that you are doing it with small purposes and larger purposes. Ideally you are writing on a routine basis and journaling whatever comes to mind. You are also adding in a bit of gratitude at the end of the journal entry. This is something that you are happy about or grateful for in that day. In addition to this, you should be going back and reviewing your journal entries. This leads you to find the patterns that are causing stress in your life. You then take a step to remove those stress inducing issues in your life. This is one of the most important mindfulness techniques to help your relax and de-stress. 

Breathing with Purpose

You may see breathing with purpose and feel that you always do that since breathing is what keeps you alive. Though that is the base reason for breathing, there are other reasons that relate to your stress and mindfulness. Mindfulness techniques related to breathing help you perform calming breathing techniques with the purpose of lowering your blood pressure and your initial stress related reaction. This is breathing with purpose and can be a vital mindfulness step in learning your body reactions, keeping them in check and dealing with your stress before it hurts you physically.

Meditation with Purpose

Meditation is listed in most mindfulness techniques as part of learning your body, being aware of how it feels, and how it is reacting. Meditation with purpose is mediating to focus on your stress, relieving that stress, and finding what the root issue is. Through meditation you can start to see a pattern in your issues and the issues you need to focus on instead of the initial knee jerk reaction of what the stress is.

These techniques can be used by themselves or can be used together to help your stress levels. You can adjust them or change them as you need and as your stress levels rise or fall. The key is to keep a mindfulness routine that works for you when you need it and do maintain it on a routine basis. 
