by Richard Flanagan My name is Richard and I’m an insomniac. Or at least I was. Now I sleep, pretty much, through the night – an extremely positive change that I attribute, largely, to regular doses of meditation (no, not medication – meditation). My particular brand of insomnia was the kind that prevented me from […]
Seeing Things: How mindfulness helped restore my lost sight
Posted on May 2, 2017 //
by Vanessa Potter As I started to wake, and sleep loosened its grip on me I stretched out my body feeling the warmth of the morning sun caress my face. A heartbeat later the crushing reality of where I was hit me like a high-speed train. I was not at home lying within the safety […]
How Mindfulness And Self-Compassion Transformed My Life
Posted on April 24, 2017 //
by Mike Fitzgerald When you live with a rare, poorly understood, and progressive health condition, there are a number of difficulties you are faced with. For example, no one can clearly tell you what you should do to successfully manage your condition, and there’s no clear advice in relation to what you can do to […]
The Journey and the Destination
Posted on October 28, 2016 //
by Gerard Evans Back in 1988 I moved from the dull suburbs of London to the coastal city of Brighton and experienced the most wonderful feeling ever. Every day I would wander the streets of Brighton, bathed in glorious sunshine and pleasant astonishment that I’d moved somewhere so beautiful. I was truly living in the […]
How The Body Scan Gives Us The Power Of Choice
Posted on August 11, 2016 //
By Lucy Faulks I used to suffer from severe pain in my left shoulder. I would walk for 50 minutes into work each morning with a strappy bag casually hooked over my left arm. It was a beautiful vintage mulberry, so what did it matter that it was causing shooting pains deep into my muscle […]
Dealing with the Darkness of Chronic Illness: How Mindfulness Helps Me to Turn on the Light
Posted on June 10, 2015 //
By Kate Libby The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything. ~ Sam Cawthorn Very early on in my illness, only a month or so after diagnosis, a neurologist who had been involved in some of my diagnostic testing urged me to try out mindfulness meditation. […]
How I Fell Back Into The Mindlessness Trap
Posted on September 12, 2014 //
By Rob Dack I’ve never been much of a runner. I tried it a few times when I was a teenager in high school, then once more just after I got married, but it never really seems to be something I enjoyed. Runs were too long, took too long to get ready for, and made […]
Being in the Body
Posted on September 2, 2014 //
How Mindfulness Soothes, Reconnects and Affirms in the Face of Chronic Pain By Paige Zuckerman “Going through the motions” is generally a euphemism imbued with tedium and routine. For a body in pain, ‘the motions’ can feel like a mountain’s climb, that one could move along with little connection to the complexity of the movement […]