Why don’t we feel good all the time and what are these painful emotions about anyway? In my work I often come across people really struggling to deal with their painful emotions, their triggers [...]
Why is mindfulness helpful? I often find that people come to me with painful emotions that they have suppressed or that spill out in unhelpful or destructive ways of behaving. I have noticed the [...]
Here is a very simple heart meditation that I love. Many “positive thinkers” will encourage you to breath out all your negativity and suffering, and to breath in positivity. This does exactly the [...]
A great way to practice mindfulness is to check in with yourself through the day. Try this a few times a day. Any time you are feeling stressed, upset or just have a spare moment. How am I [...]
Being more grounded and present can help in many ways. It can help to stop us being so reactive to triggers, it can also help us to be more aware of our emotions, and more able to process them [...]
Mindfulness and meditation practices seem like a really good idea, but who has the time, and where do you start? Here are some supportive tools for mindfulness to start or develop your practice! [...]
How can we be in a state of mindfulness in daily life? Often, even if we have a regular mindfulness practice, we can find daily life so busy and stressful that we leave that state of present [...]
“Mindfulness ….. was never intended to be strictly an awareness or attention – regulation exercise. Take away loving kindness and mindfulness is like being forced to watch a frightening scene, [...]
In answer to What is mindfulness? Google’s dictionary has this to say: mind·ful·ness ˈmīn(d)f(ə)lnəs/ noun: mindfulness the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something. a mental [...]
There are many benefits to using mindfulness in counselling. Mindfulness is a cornerstone of Hakomi psychotherapy, and is fundamental to how I work. It creates safety and gives us the resources [...]
