Mindful Resolutions – Last Minute Mindfulness
Our next option in the series on short #mindfulness practices is last minute mindfulness. This means committing to at least doing a short practice last thing before bed. You could work through any of the practices we have done so far, or follow along with a short recording or app. If we set this intention […]
Mindful Resolutions – The Daily Savour
Savouring is a lovely short practice to integrate into your day if you feel you are lacking pleasant emotions like joy, pleasure, happiness etc. It takes the attentional skills of #mindfulness and turns it towards pleasant and enjoyable daily experiences and the feelings in your body.
Mindful Resolutions – Gratitude, 3 Good Things 2.0
So far our short practices have covered mindfulness and compassion skills. Here is a way to do gratitude that can be integrated into daily life with ease. I find gratitude is incredibly supportive when we appreciate opportunities in the future, experiences in the present and events in the past. This version of the ‘three good […]
Mindful Resolutions – Dropping Anchor
The first short practice is one of my favourite daily life practices from Russ Harris. Each stage is more than it appears on first glance. It can help us to ‘open up, be present and do what matters’ in our lives. I won’t say too much about the details here as I want to focus […]
Mindful Resolutions – Introduction
Introduction to short practices for January the Mindful Resolutions
It’s like Riding a Bike – the Practice of Happiness
Happiness is a lot like riding a bicycle, if you think and concentrate too hard on each process, you are likely to start to wobble and ultimately fall.
Bullet Ants, Vision Quests and Mental Health Recovery as an Endurance Event
The Sateré-Mawé tribe of the northern region of the Amazonas in South America have a sacred ritual for young warriors that is quite unique. They have to prove their worth to the tribe by remaining in a calm state whilst suffering agonising pain. The tribe sow sedated bullet ants (named as their sting is said […]
Take a Walk on the Grateful Side – The Gratitude Walk
As the great stoic philosopher Epictetus said: ‘He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has’
The Dialectics of Being Lost at Sea – Differences between Acceptance and Distraction
Marsha Linehan developed Dialectical Behaviour Therapy as a way to help treat the most suicidal patients. Having lived through this wretched place in her own life, she was deeply empathic in her quest to aid these people.
Lost in Oblivion – An Exploration of Adverse Meditation Experiences
(Please note this is a long blog post in order for me to do this subject justice. It’s likely to be of most interest if you have experienced adverse meditative affects) Meditation is not all spa music, oxytocin, sandalwood and light! There can be stages that are like arduous rights of passage. A shamanic vision […]
