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by DrCathWood
Sat May 18, 2013 1:48 pm
Forum: New practitioners
Topic: Mindfulness: my blog of an 8 week programme
Replies: 8
Views: 3993

Re: Mindfulness: my blog of an 8 week programme

Week 7 http://howtomanageyourmind.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/mindfulness-week-7.html.

I've nearly finished now :? I've read the last chapter, so one more post and that will be it - the beginning of my lifetime of mindfulness.
by DrCathWood
Sat May 04, 2013 11:12 am
Forum: New practitioners
Topic: Mindfulness: my blog of an 8 week programme
Replies: 8
Views: 3993

Re: Mindfulness: my blog of an 8 week programme

Week 5 : http://howtomanageyourmind.blogspot.co.uk/ I am also giving away a copy of the book for people to 'like' my facebook page, so if you're into that kind of thing and you want a chance of wining a copy of the book, pop over to https://www.facebook.com/CathyWoodPsychology?ref=tn_tnmn to enter t...
by DrCathWood
Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:39 am
Forum: New practitioners
Topic: Mindfulness: my blog of an 8 week programme
Replies: 8
Views: 3993

Re: Mindfulness: my blog of an 8 week programme

I have added a new blog post to my blog. I am now up to Week 4 - days 3-6. http://howtomanageyourmind.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/mindfulness-week-4-days-3-6.html
by DrCathWood
Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:18 pm
Forum: New practitioners
Topic: Itching
Replies: 24
Views: 13988

Re: Itching

@rara yuck! Thanks for your comments everyone. Reading them I think the conclusion that I have come to is that I can focus my attention on the itch and it will gradually dissolve in awareness BUT I can also mindfully chose to scratch. Reacting to the sensation with consideration is the important thi...
by DrCathWood
Sun Mar 31, 2013 5:29 pm
Forum: New practitioners
Topic: Itching
Replies: 24
Views: 13988

Re: Itching

Thanks for the replies guys.

This is the way that I have dealt with itiching in the past, while I have been doing unguided mediation but I find it more difficult when doing guided mediation and I'm trying to do as instructed by the guider.
by DrCathWood
Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:58 pm
Forum: New practitioners
Topic: Itching
Replies: 24
Views: 13988

Itching

HI. I have just finished the first week of the Mindfulness programme (Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world) and my most pressing question is: what do you do about itching. Now and again I have an intense itch, a feeling like spiders and crawling into my body. When I'm d...
by DrCathWood
Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:21 pm
Forum: New practitioners
Topic: Mindfulness: my blog of an 8 week programme
Replies: 8
Views: 3993

Mindfulness: my blog of an 8 week programme

Hi all Although I have practice mindfulness "casually" for many years, I have never done a proper programme. Therefore I thought I would do the 8 week programme described in Mindfulness; a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world by Mark Williams and Danny Penman. If you would l...