Category: mindfulness

There needs to be a balance between being and doing. In normal 21st century life much more value is of course placed on the latter. At first I thought going totally against this trend, sliding into days free of structure and allowing whatever arises to be there was the best way to get better. But…

I’ve been lucky that I’ve never had to get a doctor’s note to cover absence from work before. So when I rang a week before term started I was uncertain what to say to prove I deserved my GP’s written permission. He had seen me whilst I had been properly ill. I wasn’t faking it…

When one of my cats brings in a dead rodent I believe they see it as a gift or maybe a triumph of skilful hunting. I view it a lot less favourably. Most of the time, like everyone else, I am trying to hold it all together. Keeping things familiar and living in a little…

I may be lying around on the sofa a lot at the moment but my mind is still instinctively doing laps and circuits. My life long habit of mindlessly chasing or avoiding stimuli isn’t going away any time soon it would appear. Getting to the fridge, having opened the door and my hand inside before…

Over the last month some friends have kindly popped round to see me between finishing at their work and going home. They have all told me how tired they feel. Which is ironic when I am the one off with fatigue. Recuperating at home is not a difficult assignment. “Take it easy and look after…

Once people know I teach mindfulness, their perception of me changes. They expect calmness at all times and in all responses. They are normally disappointed. Now that my hours are less congested with obligations and my body less filled with energy, some space has appeared in the day. Things are certainly a lot quieter for…

What would be healthy is to see this being signed off work as a good thing. To turn toward the opportunity I have been provided. In a mindfulness session the person guiding the practice is likely to say something along the lines of “If you notice your mind has wandered then, without any judgement or…