Category: mindfulness
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How to Love yourself
By Tchich Nhat Hanh. Wonderful words here. How mindfulness of body and breath can bring you to love yourself and then others as well. A perfect 13 minutes.
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Encouragement
I couldn’t say with any honesty that I enjoy running, but it does give me a sense of satisfaction and, if I am honest, smugness as well. Whilst I was certainly pleased to complete the couch to 5k app a month ago, I feel more gratification that I am running or that I go running,…
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Home Practice Week 5
Home Practice 1/ This week I would like you to alternate the body scan practice with the mindful movement and the sitting practice. Click here to hear the Rebecca Crane body scan one from previous weeks. 2/ The mindful movement practice is from Kate Mitcheom. Click HERE and you will find it at the bottom of the page of her…
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Home Practice Week 4
Home Practice 1/ This week I would like you to alternate the body scan practice with the mindful movement. Click here to hear the Rebecca Crane one from previous weeks. 2/ The mindful movement practice is from Kate Mitcheom. Click HERE and you will find it at the bottom of the page of her guided practices; it is called standing…
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3 minute working from home mindfulness
We didn’t sign up for this when we took the job – laptop on the kitchen table or maybe on a desk in the spare room. Work hours leaking into home time. And the isolation, oh my the isolation. There are many new problems to face right now and no way of knowing when it…
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Coming back
After a six month enforced lay off, I went for a run yesterday. Now I’m no Mo Farah; I had only been running for a couple or months before having to stop, so slightly dispirited I went back to week one of the BBC couch to 5k app. Once more I was listening to Michael…
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Quiet Tuesdays
In times of hardship or stress people have a tendency to cut themselves off from others. Such self isolation compounds the original discomfort by making someone feel like they are suffering alone – and maybe even that they are the only person that feels like that. In the longer term this can lead to guilt…
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Practice diary: 11th October
I have said it before, but people just presume I will always be mindful because I teach mindfulness. They are wrong. Over the weekend the heater for the shower sprung a leak. The ceiling on the floor below developed some brownish patches and the cupboard the white box was in was drenched. The house electrics…
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Practice diary: 6th October
Don’t overcomplicate mindfulness! Follow these instructions – allowing 10 seconds for each sentence Simply sit or stand still in a comfortable position and keep your back tall, but relaxed. Feel your feet on the ground. Know you are sitting (or standing). Be aware of any sounds that are audible. When you breathe in, know you…
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