Hitting your New Year’s resolution goals with mindfulness

This is time of year when gyms are packed and everyone's trying to commit to their New Year's fitness resolutions. But is there a "secret ingredient" to working out that makes it more effective?

And based on many researchers and analysis, when you combine physical activity with mindfulness, the dynamic duo come together to boost overall health and well-being, with notable improvements in mood, among other things.

On their own, physical exercise and mindfulness both boast a number of benefits, so it's no surprise that putting them together compounds those benefits.

Combining exercise with mindfulness is an effective way to reducing depression, anxiety, and stress, as well as improving rumination, emotion regulation, and self-worth over and above mindfulness training itself.

And if you've ever had a discouraging or uncomfortable gym session, you'll understand just how important emotional regulation is when you're working out. Mindfulness, helps people stay active by increasing motivation, overcoming discomfort and managing self confidence.

What to do about it

Mindfulness is an approach that can help us 'train up' the psychological strengths we need to exercise and be more in tune with our bodies, as well as make exercising more interesting and help us recognize its benefits. Becoming more mindful prompts us to become more self aware and to take a conscious approach to our lifestyle, it makes us more accepting and less judgmental of our own shortcomings, which can help to build healthy habits.

Not sure where to start? Here at Ballet Body Sculpture we take mindful and conscious attitude to all our classes, where you can not only improve your fitness, flexibility and posture but also grow your confidence, self awareness, focus and engage in positive, motivating community of likeminded people.

Check out our classes & workshops! xx