What the ….. ?
Have you ever thought about what your use of language reveals?
Being more mindful of how you speak to yourself can make all the difference to how you feel.
“I’m never going to get through it all!”
“I’ve too much to do but I’m too tired to do half of it.”
“I want to sleep until spring!”
It’s not just that Christmas is coming… this feeling that there’s too much to do (or worry about) is often with us the whole year round. A sense of overwhelm can feed anxiety and exhaust us.
Losing your motivation for mindfulness practice?
Try something different…
It can feel like a real challenge at times to sit or lie still and meditate. Our attempts to slow down and be with the breath or body, noticing our thoughts and emotions as they arise, may sometimes make us feel worse.
A Review
Consultant clinical psychologist, Lucy Maddox, has written this accessible guide to improving how we feel about our lives, taking her experience as a therapist to the general population. Along the way she makes a good number of references to Mindfulness.
Why not set the intention to integrate mindfulness into your everyday life and find more joy in the ordinary details of your existence?
Feeling frazzled?
Practise this short meditation often enough and it can become your rescue remedy when you feel you need a break.
Establishing and sustaining a practice
To begin with, don't wait to feel motivated. Motivation might never come. You just have to do it. The following steps might help...
How to find more freedom and choice in everyday life
One of the wonderful things about being human is the way we can learn complex tasks and procedures which, overtime, become second nature to us. We don’t have to think about them.
Develop some more attitude!
Jon Kabat-Zinn calls the 9 attitudes “the major pillars of mindfulness” and advises that they should be “cultivated consciously” when practising. With further study, it quickly becomes clear that they are all interdependent, one leading almost seamlessly to the next.
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Develop some attitude: part 1
Jon Kabat-Zinn says, “To cultivate the healing power of mindfulness requires much more than mechanically following a recipe or set of instructions." ("Full Catastrophe Living") When we start to practise we soon find that it's not enough to spend time meditating each day, for however long.
I can’t believe it’s not Buddha!
What is the connection between Buddhism and Mindfulness meditation? And Yoga?
Meditation has been a feature of many religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam for thousands of years. So, where does mindfulness actually come from?
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