A brief mindful awareness activity for the body
How are you feeling? A short mindfulness practice for the body and mind
What is Mindfulness?
What is Mindfulness and how can it help you?
Reflections: Mindful Moments – Check In
Have you had a holiday this year? It’s at this time of year when people are flying off on a well-deserved break, or even just enjoying a weekend away. The airports are alive with people checking in their luggage and checking out of their busy lives - at least for a little while. But how … Continue reading Reflections: Mindful Moments – Check In
Reflections: Mindful Moments – Be With What Is
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Reflections: Mindful Moments – Colour Yourself Happy
What’s your favourite colour? You might have noticed that colours have the ability to affect our mood. If anyone has ever admired a colour you’re wearing (“that colour looks so good on you!”) then you’ll know it has the power to lift our spirits. We can use colour in mindfulness and we don’t have to … Continue reading Reflections: Mindful Moments – Colour Yourself Happy
Reflections: Mindful Moments – Change
How do you feel when you recognise change? It’s not always easy realising that something has shifted. That change has happened. That things aren’t the way they used to be. In the Buddhist teachings, one of the causes of mental anguish can be described as our relationship with attachments. The idea that in order for … Continue reading Reflections: Mindful Moments – Change
Reflections: Mindful Moments – Sitting
When was the last time you sat still and did nothing? I ask people in my classes what stops them, and they often tell me it feels like a waste of time. There is always so much to do. And actually if they manage to sit still, even for five minutes, they feel guilty thinking … Continue reading Reflections: Mindful Moments – Sitting
Reflections – Get Curious
Do you ever think about what you think about? It's a strange question, I know. Often a thought pops in our head, and we get hooked in. It grabs our attention, and then it goes round and round and round in our minds. It might be something off the wall, or it might be a … Continue reading Reflections – Get Curious
Reflections – Manage Your Mind
Have you ever noticed how your mind is sometimes like a pin-ball machine? It flies off in different directions, at all sorts of tangents and occasional really random thoughts pop in. Like “I wonder what happened to Emilio Estevez?” Sometimes of course, they’re not funny at all. The thoughts we have can be crippling. They … Continue reading Reflections – Manage Your Mind
Reflections – Say what you see
Do you remember Catchphrase? Roy Walker would host this weekly show where people had to guess, as images were revealed, what they were looking at. Mindfulness is a bit like that. Sometimes, random things happen and there are times when you can see the jigsaw pieces fall into place and it all starts to make … Continue reading Reflections – Say what you see
Reflections – Find It
Where do you store tension in your body? When I run my classes I do an exercise where I ask that same question. We find the sensations in our body we associate with stress, and then we do an exercise to help release the tension. We now know that there are links between how the … Continue reading Reflections – Find It
Reflections – Embrace It
Do you find you go round in circles? You make a decision to change direction, and end up in the exact same place. You go out with someone new, and find they’re the same person as the last, just with a different face. You feel like you’re moving towards something, and realise you’re back where … Continue reading Reflections – Embrace It
