Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and welcome to episode 62 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

So it's still pretty close to the start of a new year and I've been hearing from quite a few people about their health goals. I thought I'd create this

episode of the podcast to give you a few ideas about how mindfulness can help us on our journeys

towards better health and help support you with the things you'd like to

achieve. I really hope this episode will be a meaningful and inspiring resource to help you

create and follow through on the goals which are really important to you while still being

kind and compassionate towards yourself. So here are four ways mindfulness practices can support us as we work towards taking better care of our health and well-being.

First of all, mindfulness gives us awareness and the opportunity to implement change.

Here's a quick example to show you how this might work. Let's say I want to

eat more fruit and vegetables each day. When I go grocery shopping, I can be more mindful by choosing

what I actually put in my basket and purchase. I can be mindful of how I'm feeling in that moment

and how those emotions are influencing me.

For example, maybe I'm feeling a bit unmotivated and as a result I don't really want to get any food and vegetables

or maybe the advertising of other types of food makes me more excited.

Recognizing these emotions gives us the chance to remember

that emotions pass and you don't have to act according to them. Now I know this might sound like

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