Everyday Mindfulness

My experience is that EFT can be combined with mindfulness. It doesn't have to be an "either/or" choice. I have used both and found them complementary. I mainly used EFT at the early part of my addiction recovery and found it useful at reducing anxiety and stress quickly, when I didn't hav...

Kids really notice it when you are truly present and engaged with them. It's pure magic to feel that ! I think mindfulness helped me as much with my parenting as anything else. Very good for dealing with tantrums (mostly my kids tantrums:)

The walking meditation was created to allow Buddhist monks the ability to break their sitting practice. Sometimes just noticing the onset of pins and needles, the discomfort and then the alleviation of that discomfort can be something to savour and appreciate too.

According to Kelly McGonigal in her boom the Willpower Instinct, procrastinators who are stressed out about how behind they are on a project will put it off even longer to avoid having to think about it. This is because the goal of feeling better trumps the goal of self control (i.e doing something)...

One of the things I have learned over 5 plus years of near daily practice is that there will be times when it feels like mindfulness is not 'working' or that you are even backsliding. There can be times when you feel like chucking in the towel ! I have a had a few of those moments for sure. But the ...

Mindfulness develops interception which is a sensitivity to the internal physiological conditions or stimuli within the body. It is a blocked inability for interceptions that is leaving you feeling empty/hollow. The origin of this can have multiple causes, and from my experience, it can be caused by...