Mindfulness is as important as your toothbrush

Written By Taylor Bartley

Mindfulness is as important as your toothbrush. You wouldn’t neglect brushing your teeth but every day people have excuses why they don’t do 5-10 minutes of mindfulness practice.

Continuous stress and anxiety have many long-term consequences including

  • Affecting your mental and physical health

  • Over activating the flight or fight response in non-stressful times leading to wear and tear on your mind and body day in and day out.

  • Additional inflammation and lowered immunity making you more susceptible to colds and fluImpaired blood glucose

  • Thinning of the bones

  • Increased aging, in fact you can add a around a decade to your life by not doing something now about your stress.

Mindfulness meditation reduces

  • Increases your immunity

  • Switches of excessive inflammation

  • Relieves cardiovascular system stress

  • Switches down cortisol.

  • Slows down the rate of aging.

  • And soooooooooooooo much more.

When will your mind be as important as your teeth? Remember – Do or do not. There is no try

Learn more about mindfulness at https://www.smilingmind.com.au/mindfulness/

Taylor Bartley
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