Can mindfulness increase your happiness?
I can lose myself when I stare at a flower. Their delicate petals, the shapes they form, their beauty; gazing at or softly touching them can quieten me and fill me with gratitude and awe.
It hasn’t always been the case though. Waking up in the midst of an anxiety attack, feeling suicidal from depression, or merely just coping with some everyday form of stress - if you’d handed me a flower to look at I would have returned the favour with a filthy look. How on earth could it have helped me feel less pain?
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