Breathing in the good - Gladdening our heart...Building our resilience... I'm currently doing Brene Brown's Art Journalling course on the Gifts of Imperfection! (https://www.ownlifeclasses.com/pages/brene-brown) I totally recommend it - it's fun and gets the creative juices flowing and covers topics such as courage, joy & gratitude & creativity! All things I need more of… Continue reading Gladdening our heart increases our resilience…
'Joy & Gratitude can be very vulnerable & intense experiences. We are an anxious people and many of us have very little tolerance for vulnerability. Our anxiety & fear can manifest as scarcity. We think to ourselves: I'm not going to allow myself to feel this joy because I know it won't last Acknowledging how… Continue reading Mindful Gratitude #2
Gratitude has been part of my mindfulness practice since I read research that found if you write 3 things a day you are grateful for, for a week - 6 months later you will have a stronger sense of well-being than someone who doesn't! So lets do that this week - lets share what we… Continue reading Mindful Gratitude
I've been doing a lot of reading lately about how if we can change our focus then our whole outlook or 'story' of what just happened or is about to happen changes... and one of my teachers recently said: if we choose a particular focus we can create a whole new habit, an interesting thought....it really… Continue reading Choose Your Focus….and change your life…
My Favourite way of explaining the brain to children but also to parents! Thank you Dan Siegel! Mostly I am so flat out with life and trying to be more mindful myself that I must admit I don't do enough teaching of mindfulness to my 4 children....not as much as I would like to anyway! … Continue reading Mindfulness & Children
I find that if I can pause and say to myself ' I am present, right here, right now', I can then begin to think of what I am grateful for right now: 'our health, food, shelter, water, the loving touch of someone, the warmth of a dooner, the view'. It doesn't matter what I… Continue reading Cultivating An Attitude of Gratitude
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