Tips on how to use mindfulness in everyday life

5 Tips on how to use mindfulness

2022 has only just begun. The perfect time to take care of your own mental health. 5 unusual tips to help you get stronger through everyday life.

No question, New Year's resolutions are a great thing: you think about what you want to achieve in the next twelve months - a good way to sort your thoughts and set goals.

In 2022, these resolutions should be expanded to include one pillar alongside your job, fitness and private life: your own mental health. Because not only the body wants to be prepared for everyday life, but also the head.

These five unusual tips strengthen the psyche and help to make everyday life a little easier... 

1. Start a gratitude book

A gratitude journal works in a similar way to a journal - and yet it is something completely different. In this little book, which is best kept ready to hand on the dessert table, you only write down the things you are grateful for before you go to bed.

It is best to keep it brief and only write down key points, because the gratitude book should not become an unpleasant homework that you quickly get tired of.

Incidentally, it doesn't matter how many points you write down - the only important thing is to only write down nice things, even if they may seem so small.

Did you do one more push-up than before? Write down! Did the bus driver say hello when you got on? Write down! Fetched a work colleague? Write down!

2. Go on mental journeys

When meditating, it is often said to either banish all thoughts completely from your head or to allow them unfiltered.

Both can hardly be mastered when the stress gets out of hand.

So mental journeys are a good way to take care of your own mental health. As with the gratitude book, there is only one rule here: the journey should be about something positive.

For example, imagine you are snorkeling on a beautiful reef: What fish do you see? How does the water feel? And the sun that hits the sea from above?

Or take a mental journey through the mountains and take a close look at the moss growing on the trees.

3. No cell phone when meeting friends

When it comes to mental health, there is always talk of smartphones, constant availability and social media. Because one thing is clear: digital life causes stress , both positive and negative.

However, planning to avoid all techno-stress in 2020 is simply utopian.

A simple yet fundamental change can make a big difference: As soon as you're out with friends, you put your cell phone down.

No messages, no photos (someone else should take them), no phone calls, no emails. For this limited period only. This short mobile phone free time relieves the mind and ensures more undisturbed time with loved ones.

Important: The smartphone stays in your pocket even when others are picking up theirs. You can use these moments to consciously perceive your environment.

 
4. Spread love on social media

Techno stress also comes from being confronted with a lot of negative things online. This can be both mobbing experiences as well as the classic news: There is often a big minus on the net.

You can and should consciously oppose this and change your own online behavior by making a small positive contribution every day.

A sincere, personal compliment on Instagram, re-tweeting a good cause, or writing a good review about a restaurant/hotel/museum etc. you've recently visited are small gestures of digital kindness.

5. Discover the inner child

Laughing more often, playing the good old parlor games that you remember from your childhood, just throwing a ball against the wall and catching it again, ice skating, tobogganing or taking a bath with lots of foam – little things like these loosen up everyday life on.