Help us cover the map with mindful movers, as we try to "take over the world" with mindfulness! And challenge yourself to choose a practice to focus on each week! Use the articles, quiz, and weekly topics in the app, along with relevant issues in your life to choose a practice, each week for a year. Carry the practice you've chosen in your attention (and intentions) through the week, and see what you notice. If you want to track your insights, use the "insights this week" tab to send yourself a note.
You can think about practicing with thoughts, feelings, or actions/interactions, depending on the topic and what you'd like to focus on. You evolve as a person (and soul), with each aspect of self that you bring into mindful awareness.
Mindful on the Move App shows you "yourself" and mindfulness through a new topic each week. Whether you're new to mindfulness, or a seasoned practitioner, challenging yourself to keep a practice in mind each week helps you sharpen your mindful focus.
Mindful on the Move App is unique because it focuses on helping you build a more complex "sense of self," as you practice while "on the move." The 52 weekly topics are attitudes or actions/reactions that we all use during everyday life. As you take a closer look at habits connected to each weekly topic, you develop a nuanced awareness of yourself of how you operate with issues like anger, avoidance, love, choice, and vulnerability.
Mindful observance of the "self" and its habits, is a natural part of mindfulness practice, but it helps to have prompts, like our weekly topics. Mindfulness is traditionally a practice in eastern philosophies (and really all major religions in their deeper aspects) toward enlightenment, elimination of "ego," or spiritual connection with God or source. With practice, as conflict clears from different levels of self (mental, emotional, physical), you become the proactive version of yourself, and stop being the reactive version. You also actually feel lighter (probably where the term enlightenment comes from), and intuition kicks in more often, to make things really interesting - but that's for each person to internally discover!
Your brain responds by building more neural networks for calm intentional awareness, and dismantling ones that go straight to the habit or stress response. Focus with more clarity on your highest goals, and less on managing (reacting to) problems, or spinning thoughts. Neuroplasticity refers to the brain's ability to change, which is what happens when you use your focus more in some ways, and less in others. In mindfulness practice, you gradually take more conscious control of how you use your attention and thoughts. With practice, your brain responds by creating more neural networks to support your intentional focus. If you stop using some of the neural networks formed from old habits, the brain dismantles them and redistributes neurons to support things you're doing more.
Instead of waiting for world leaders to clean up their act (does anyone really have that kind of time)? ...take full control now of the one thing you have control over- YOU. The state of the world is an "outer world" reflection of the "inner worlds" of people. As people settle their inner world conflicts, fears, and negativity, the outer world will reflect that with more harmony. You do your part just by becoming the best version of you, and contributing what you uniquely have to offer, no matter how big or small that contribution seems. A world full of people who have taken full responsibility for each aspect of themselves will function differently from a world where people believe they are victims of the external world or chance (in moments through the day).
So enjoy the ride (ie: mindful moments along the way)... and thank you for your part in making the world (and the world in you) a more mindful place. Pass it on!