Mindful Life Project

Let’s become our own bff 😊❤️

Let the “inner friend” grow and the “inner critic” go.

Due to so many factors, including the wiring of our brain having a default negative bias and we are highly effected by societal conditioning, we often are extremely self critical and have inner narratives that create the storylines in our mind that can make us feel a lack of self worth, a lack of belonging, isolated and much more. If the “inner critic” can grow that means we can also grow the “inner friend.”

A mindfulness technique that helps grow the inner friend is training ourselves to have gratitude and compassion for our authentic self and befriending our inner experiences.

By taking time each day to cultivate gratitude and self compassion to celebrate what makes us unique while tapping into our inner resilience we can slowly start to eliminate the inner critic. Ideally we can start the day by doing this. Try it out, either with your eyes closed or looking with connection into the mirror think of things that you are grateful for about yourself and send yourself compassion and love. It might be hard at first but the more we practice the more it will grow!

Imagine learning mindfulness at 5 years old.

How could that have transformed your life?

As we close out our 13th year of being of service to our communities, Mindful Life Project sends our deepest gratitude to our youth, their educators and families.

It has been an honor and privilege to partner and collaborate on strengthening individual and community mental and emotional health through our mindfulness based social and emotional learning programming across the 70+ schools we served this year 🙌🏼

These emotions.

These thoughts.

This full inner experience.

No judgment of it all but instead meeting it with compassion and kindness ❤️

And the more we practice each skill, including heartfulness, the more it grows ❤️

It is deeply beneficial for our wellbeing to cultivate self compassion and self love consistently. From this place we can truly provide it to others. Wishing you a wonderful love day, everyday.

We are deeply grateful to the for the transformative partnership in providing San Bruno students, educators and families our mindfulness based social emotional learning programs!

Today, San Bruno Community Foundation Board Member, Belinda Wong, presented MLP’s Founder and CEO, JG Larochette, a $20,000 grant check to support our work in our San Bruno partner schools!

Practicing Mindful Emotions is deeply transformational.

Emotions can be so challenging to navigate but when we practice mindfulness and use our mindful skills we can navigate emotions in such more healthy ways.

First we learn that emotions come wne emotions go and we should treat them all like friends. Once we don’t judge our emotions they don’t have as much power over us.

We also know that strong emotions can be extra hard so we can use name it to tame it.

Try it out. Notice an emotion in you right now. Name that emotion by just saying it in your head or outloud 3-5 times.

Now check where that emotion might be felt strongest in the body and bring body awareness with Heartfulness and breath in and breath out.

Now check in. Has anything changed? If so or if not, no judgment because that’s what mindfulness is, allowing what is here now in our experience to be here with heartfulness.

and presented at the CAAPLE Conference today on Mindfulness and the power of building a community of practice!

Mindful thinking is a powerful practice!

Sending heartfulness your way ❤️

“Mindfulness is important to me because it has opened me up to the thoughts of non judgement with emotions and feelings. I love how mindfulness allows for us to share how we are feeling whether not so great or good. Mindfulness creates a great community in class with so much support for one another and no judgement is there.“ -7th grader, Mindful Life Project Partner School