Well I am almost halfway through my challenge. For 14 days I have sat for 15 minutes in mindfulness meditation each day. It’s not been easy some days, for example on Day 3 I had to go to the doctors which completely ruined my routine, increased my anxiety and pain. This had a knock on […]
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Using mindfulness practice to become aware of my social media use
Wakey wakey I woke groggy and sore like every morning. Shooting pain in my joints and the evil butterflies in my stomach made me almost decide not to do any mindfulness and to go back to sleep once the monsters went to school. Little Pea’s incessant waffling and the cat deciding to lie on my […]
How I create my own Zentangle ® inspired art and why you should try it.
Zentangle? What on earth is it??? Zentangle ® It sounds like a cross between yoga, meditation and twister. Don’t panic, I’m not going to ask you get in some strange position. It is a creative therapy that aims to create drawings out of patterns. Did you doodle on the corner of your textbooks and workbooks […]
Meditation – 60 days of mindfulness
From procrastination to meditation and the app that made it possible Mindful meditation isn’t easy , it takes practice. In the last post I wrote about having that ‘Ah-ha!’ moment where I realised where I was going wrong. But just because I could see my mistakes didn’t make it any easier to get a grip […]
Mindfulness – my journey and how it all began
I’ve always been curious about mindfulness meditation, when I was younger the books I read instructed sitting in silence, not thinking. Not easy when you have an over-active imagination. I aspired to be a bit of a hippy, free spirited with an enlightened, well travelled glow. But for a teenager living in a small village, […]