Mindfulness Practices & Counseling

At Life Navigation Services, we want to help you find pathways to your best self. When you understand yourself, you can break cycles, live confidently in the present, engage in personal growth, and become more aware of your body and mindset. Practicing mindfulness helps to build paths to your future possibilities.

With our mindfulness practices services, we can help guide you toward answers and encourage you to prioritize your physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

To that end, you may be wondering: what is mindfulness?

What Is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a technique and practice that encourages awareness of internal and external triggers, helping you experience what’s going on around you and being fully present in the moment without feeling overwhelmed or reactive to the people and events around you.

Mindfulness is a gentle and nurturing way to exist within yourself and process the world and its stressors. When practicing mindfulness, you can manage your thoughts, feelings, and reactions better, helping you avoid feeling overwhelmed or out of control about the events around you.

Our Mindfulness Practices

At Life Navigation Services, we offer many ways for you to engage with mindfulness practices, helping you unlock lessons that you can use in your everyday life. These include:

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Despite what some people may say, stress isn’t good for everyone. This is especially true if your stress is always present. Luckily, practicing mindfulness can help you reduce stress, particularly if the sources of your stress are from inside your own mind or body. This happens in a few simple ways, including:


  • Putting you in touch with your thoughts and feelings gives you awareness of the state you exist in
  • Allowing you to focus on what’s most important right now while accepting the tasks you have to complete later
  • Encouraging your body to relax while attuning you to listen to its needs more easily and respond to them effectively


Our experienced team can help you reduce stress with mindfulness practices at Life Navigation Services.

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Mindful Relationships Workshops & Mindful Marriages

While much of mindfulness is directed inward, many parts are about being aware of your surroundings and those around you. If you’re in a marriage or romantic relationship and want to have stronger, more authentic connection, you can practice mindfulness with your partner. This allows you and those you care for to be present with one another and engage more effectively and consistently.


To help you toward these goals, our team at Life Navigation Services can work with you and your loved ones, partners, and friends at our Mindful Relationships workshops or one-on-ones for more Mindful Marriages. We also offer relationship counseling services.

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Mindful Life Mapping (Goal-Oriented Planning)

A life map is a visual representation of key moments throughout our lives that we can use to understand where we were and develop goals to be where we want to be in the future.


You can use a life map to get a clearer understanding of yourself and make the ideas of your future less overwhelming. When you understand where you were in the past, where you are now, and where you want to go, it can give you a unique perspective about the next steps you can take in your life.


When you work with our team at Life Navigation Services, we can help guide you through creating and understanding an effective life map, ultimately helping you get more control over your life with thoughtful and goal-oriented planning.

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Mindful Meditation Services

Unsurprisingly, a part of mindfulness can include a meditation practice. Mindful meditation is a way to focus closely on what you’re feeling or felt in the past and work towards accepting those thoughts and feelings and incorporating them into your current mindset.


You can work with our team at Life Navigation Services to learn more about ways to meditate and practice a holistic mindfulness. Our yoga-certified counselors can help you unlock connections between your mental state and body to learn techniques for effective mindful meditation and incorporate them into your daily life.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Mindfulness

  • Q. How Can I Be More Present In My Daily Life?

    There are many ways you can remain present in your daily life. Some methods include:


    • Noticing when your mind wanders
    • Focusing on one thing at a time
    • Paying attention to each of your senses
    • Engaging in reflective and active listening to those around you
    • Doing mindful (intentional, slow) movement when appropriate

  • Q. How Can I Stop Focusing On The Past or Worrying About The Future?

    Like staying present, there are different methods you can use to stop focusing on the past and worrying about the future, including:


    • Practicing mindful meditation
    • Discovering the causes of your worries
    • Engaging in consistent gratitude
    • Staying physically healthy
    • Doing life mapping and goal planning
    • Engaging in counseling with a trusted and licensed counselor

  • Q. Can Mindfulness Help Me Find Contentment In The Moment?

    Yes! Mindfulness is an excellent tool for finding contentment in each moment of your life. This may not come easily, but the more you practice mindfulness, the easier it can become. Plus, our team at Life Navigation Services can help you practice mindfulness.

  • Q. Is Mindfulness Religious or Spiritual?

    Mindfulness isn’t necessarily religious or spiritual, though many people do engage with their religion and spirituality while practicing it. Others who aren’t religious or spiritual can also practice mindfulness and experience its benefits.


    Regardless of the spiritual and religious parts of your life, mindfulness can help you feel more connected to the moment and have more control over your life.

Emotional Safety

You deserve to be heard and to be seen. You deserve to be in a safe and comfortable setting that allows you to process your thoughts, feelings, and emotions.

Non-Judgement

My office is a judgement free zone. You deserve a safe place to say the things that you may have never said to anyone else. And when you do, I will be here to support you and guide you along the way. 

Non-Bias

If you come for relationship counseling or marriage therapy I promise to not show bias, but to discuss the issues to gain a better level of understanding and to ensure that goals are reached, trust and accountability are held, and that the relationship is strengthen.

Support

Support and compassion will always be provided so that you no longer feel like you have tackle difficult issues alone. In this process you will learn to gain the tools you need to feel more confident and successful in your life!

Practice Mindfulness with Life Navigation Services

At Life Navigation Services, we’re excited to share our techniques and practices to help you live a more mindful life, helping you be your authentic self, express your needs freely, and explore possibilities without self-doubt.


If you’re interested in learning more about our mindfulness services, contact us online or give our team a call at 859-953-0119 and see how we can support your personal growth in a non-biased, non-judgmental, supportive, and emotionally safe environment.