In this episode I am talking about finding mindfulness in any activities you love.

Show Notes

In today’s episode , I would like to share my mindfulness practice with art. As per my first episode, Art led me to mindfulness.

It’s not about just art, it could be anything you do and love. It’s that thing when you do you lose track of time and you are in the complete zone. For me it is art, for some it could be playing sports, creating crafts or composing music.

Doing one Thing you love everyday will make you feel more calm as you will feel you are more mindful of whatever you are passionate about.

Let me share how I paint - I paint feelings which are inspired by the music that I hear in nature and life. Even in silence I could hear the music.

Most of the time when I am painting , it is complete silence. No music, nothing. I can hear the sound of my brush, water, mixing paint and these sound is the music to my ears.

Sometimes, I put something on like a random Youtube video or podcast but in few minutes that noise goes in the background and I am completely mindful about my each brush strokes, colour selection, mixing and blending.

Try this with anything you love, observe the feelings without judging them as good or bad. Just notice what’s going on when you do the activity you love.

When I came across mindfulness, I was amazed as I knew exactly how painting makes me feel.

In mindfulness, we let our thoughts come and go and don’t try to stop them. Or attach to them. Same way painting teaches me not to get attached with the outcomes.

Other way I feel art for me is mindfulness practice is because the way I observe and notice things around me itself is the practice of mindfulness. I love watching clouds from my office window, I see birds flying over office roofs, sometimes I observe how the airplane moves in the cloud.

I have no words what feelings these kind of activities gives me but I know I feel something. It helps me to take a pause at work.

All these inspire me to paint. Infact, I am watching plane in the sky right now.

I hope you feel inspired to pick up the activity or hobby that you always wanted to do. Go ahead and make a start. Soon you will start practicing mindfulness. Also, whenever you feel you are stuck or artist language we call it artist block, try to do some other things like photography, dancing or anything you like. Because I found that we learn something new , our brain becomes more mindful to learn that thing and suddenly it unlocks my creativity. So never stuck in a rut. Keep switching with new things to take break.

Ok, guys it’s time to say good bye and I will be back next week. Have a lovely week beautiful minds.