Over the course of the last four weeks, I’ve taken you through a lot of information about mindfulness and given you many examples of how it could help you live a happier life.  What I’d like to do today is explain why living mindfully means so much to me personally and to also walk you through a few ways that it has changed my life. And when I say that, I mean it literally.  Ever since starting to practice mindfulness last August, my life has completely changed in the best ways possible.

I’m much happier with who I am. I’m less stressed about the little things. I’m not worried about the future.

I have to be honest…my life has been pretty darn busy lately. Not only did I launch this site, but I also immediately jumped into publishing a 6-week series about mindfulness. And on top of that I’m putting together a free 3-week mindfulness challenge (which you can read more about and sign up for here). To make it even more interesting, I started all this a couple of days before I had surgery to get my gallbladder removed. That probably sounds like a good amount of extra-curricular activities, right?  Well apparently, not quite.  

In the first couple weeks of this blog series, I’ve been explaining what mindful living is and have given some examples of how you can bring more mindfulness into your life. If you missed those blog posts, you can click here to go check them out. We’ve already talked about a few of the ways that you can tell if living more mindfully will help you become happier, but I wanted to dive a little deeper and give you 7 signs that prove you will love adding more mindfulness into your life.

“Life is short.”  “Live life to the fullest.“  “You only live once.”  People give this type of advice all the time. But, it’s easier said than done. In our busy world, time flies by and we barely remember the drive home from work, let alone take the time to appreciate the scenery.   But it doesn’t have to be that way.  We CAN live life to the fullest. We CAN appreciate every moment. We CAN enjoy ourselves every single day.  How is this possible?

Have you ever gotten in the car to drive home and then tuned out so much that you pulled into your driveway and don’t remember the drive at all?  It can be kind of scary to think that you were so engrossed in something else that you can't even remember driving your car.  Thankfully, that muscle memory of driving a familiar route is what got you home safely.  But what if we’re doing more than just driving mindlessly?  What if we’re living our entire lives on auto-pilot?