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5 Things Mindfulness does and doesn't mean

15/5/2022

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Mindfulness: what's it all about?

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Abandon ship! The amygdala in flight

26/7/2021

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amygdala, nervous system, autonomic nervous system, fight and flight, flight response, spiders, run away, escape, zipzap brain snap, meet the amygdala

We’re driving home from the school bus.

My son is eleven.

Suddenly, a grisly, hairy, huntsman spider dashes onto the dash.

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The Best Thing Ever (yup, meditation)

15/2/2021

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Wellmania, Meditation, stillness, meditate, mindfulness

I knew it all along.

Meditation is the best thing ever (hear, hear!)

Travel journalist Brigid Delaney tells us why in her fun-packed travel tome, Wellmania.

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Finding Ease

7/1/2021

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Ease.
The very word carries an ahhhhh...
An eease ...
A letting go.

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End 2020 with a big dollop of joy

10/12/2020

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BUY NOW

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Stuff-up beat-up

2/10/2020

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pic by Eric Ward, Unsplash

THE BENEFITS OF SELF-KINDNESS

What is your stuff-up self-response style?

How do you treat yourself when you get it wrong. You forget to put out the garbage/ yell at the kids/ get the meeting time wrong/ fail on zoom connection/ miss a great opportunity/ can’t find the words …. Etc. etc.?

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MOVING HOUSE

They say moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do- and perhaps they are right.

We were set to put our place on the market in coming months … then, just recently, someone wandered past our place (in the middle of nowhere) and offered to buy it. Fantastic, it has saved us the putting-on-market scenario … on the flip side we find ourselves in a mad scramble with the onward move.

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MOVE BETTER

11/5/2020

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Yoga online, yoga online with Shakti, Shakti Burke, easy yoga, yoga for over-55s

photo: Natalie Grainger

The purpose of yoga is stretch, open and expand our physical boundaries.

Boundaries that contract over the years.

The tight spine, the creaky knees, achy elbows …. looking over the shoulder to reverse the car is an effort. Forget any wild idea of touching the toes or heading south any further than to peer over your glasses.

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A FABULOUS ANXIETY RESOURCE

17/2/2020

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image by Gemma Correll

If you or anyone you know is suffering from intense anxiety, this short audio from Insight Timer will help.

It’s by Jim Malloy, a longterm American meditation teacher (since 1973) with a soothing voice and caring manner.

ANXIETY BREEDS ANXIETY

Experiencing anxiety is not our fault. It’s not a shortcoming. We’re designed to flip into anxiety when feeling under threat.

The scarier the threat, the greater the anxiety.
Even being anxious about getting anxiety can bring on more anxiety.

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Mindful Breathing Benefits

6/9/2019

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Have you heard the one about the guy who tries to wake up his son for school?

"Billy," says the dad, "wake up!"
Billy groans "I don't want to get up."
Dad shouts, "Get up, you have to go to school."
Billy moans "I don't want to go to school."
"Why not?" asks dad.
"Three reasons," says Billy.

"First, because it's so dull; second, the kids tease me; and third, I hate school."

Billy’s father answers: "Well, I am going to give you three reasons why you must go to school.

First, because it is your duty; second, because you are forty-five years old, and third, because you are the headmaster."

We all know the feeling. I don’t wanna but I gotta. In the short-term, we can use mindful breathing to ease our unease. (In the longterm, let’s try to change the hated situation!)

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5 Things Mindfulness does and doesn't mean

Abandon ship! The amygdala in flight

The Best Thing Ever (yup, meditation)

Finding Ease

End 2020 with a big dollop of joy

Stuff-up beat-up

THE BENEFITS OF SELF-KINDNESS

What is your stuff-up self-response style?

How do you treat yourself when you get it wrong. You forget to put out the garbage/ yell at the kids/ get the meeting time wrong/ fail on zoom connection/ miss a great opportunity/ can’t find the words …. Etc. etc.?

MOVE HOUSE, STAY IN BODY

MOVE BETTER

A FABULOUS ANXIETY RESOURCE

Mindful Breathing Benefits

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THE BENEFITS OF SELF-KINDNESS

What is your stuff-up self-response style?

How do you treat yourself when you get it wrong. You forget to put out the garbage/ yell at the kids/ get the meeting time wrong/ fail on zoom connection/ miss a great opportunity/ can’t find the words …. Etc. etc.?