Everyday Mindful

The mission of Everyday Mindful is to teach you to live intentionally and coach you to live mindfully, be well, and live your creative potential. Do you spend much of your life going through the motions on automatic pilot, doing what you feel you must or should, repeating the same patterns, and then feeling disappointed about how your life turns out? It’s possible to start the process of learning to live intentionally by slowing down and engaging in thoughtful inquiry into what matters most to you, what your heart longs for, and what intentions you hold for your life. Clarifying your intentions is the first step in an 8 step process to living intentionally and mindfully.

Everyday Mindful is operated by Jennifer Johnson, MS, MFA, LPC. Jennifer is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist, life coach, and stress management coach in Wilmington, NC. She provides stress management training and coaching for individuals and corporations. Jennifer teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses as well as workshops and retreats on Mindful Stress Reduction, Intentional Living, and Mindfulness & Creativity. Jennifer provides mindfulness-based counseling and coaching to clients internationally. She loves teaching people mindfulness skills for stress reduction, a greater sense of well-being, and enhanced creativity.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is awareness of the present moment without judgment. It involves slowing down to pay attention to what is happening in each moment and opening our hearts to the experiences of our lives with a greater sense of ease and friendliness toward our experience.

“When we pause from the busyness, when we stop, it actually gives us a chance
to come home to our hearts again.” — Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance

In coming home to our hearts again, we feel a greater sense of connection with ourselves and others. We open to the possibility of cultivating loving-kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others. We create a deepening sense of equanimity and appreciative joy. We learn to move toward greater levels of wellbeing.

“Mindfulness is basically just a particular way of paying attention.
It is a way of looking deeply into oneself in the spirit of self-inquiry and
self-understanding.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

A relaxed mind is a creative mind. Through practicing paying attention to our experience of each moment, we open ourselves to the possibility of a greater sense of peace, freedom, creativity, and joy.

“Do you pay regular visits to yourself?” –Rumi