Process Essay: Does Being Mindful Impact On Communication

Being mindful is when a person focuses on what is occurring at a precise moment. Mindfulness is difficult to retain when there are various distractions such as noise of cell phones. When following the steps of developing mindfulness there were many positives results. Developing mindfulness improved socialization with peers and enhanced relationships with family, friends, and even improved my working ethic. Following guidelines for developing mindfulness had a drastic impact on communication with my family members. Typically when speaking with family, I am either on my cell phone texting or preoccupied by alternate distractions. Whenever we went out to eat I would leave my cell phone at home so we could have conversations without the distractions …show more content…
For example if family have fights they will typically make up their differences because they are always there for each other. Friends are typically not the same way and friendships can end from small insignificant arguments. One example of mindfulness in friendship is, one of my friends recently broke up with her boyfriend this Sunday. She decided we should go to a bar and spend some time together and communicate with each other with how her current emotional state of mind. When entering the bar one could tell how lively it was: with the noise of people playing pool pushing que against the ball quickly rolling directly into the back right pocket, a group of young women laughing hysterically at bartender’s joke, and who cannot forget the college student who just had too much alcohol to drink and is being bounced out of the bar by security. The variety of distractions made it difficult to communicate but, concentrating allowed me to focus on what he was explaining and even partake in the conversation by asking questions that illustrated I was focused only on what she was saying. Mindfulness also exemplifies a deeper connection and shows concerns for their