By Lucy Roleff “Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke When I was twelve years old, I figured out how to get out of things. It was a rainy Saturday morning and I was […]
A Simple But Powerful Way to Kick The Worry Habit
Posted on November 15, 2013 //
By Abby Seixas “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” ~ Swedish proverb I’m a worrier by nature, and I come by it honestly. My mother was afraid to cross bridges, and ride in elevators, boats, and airplanes. Her mother died of cancer at the age of 40, and my mother spent many […]
Mindfulness And The Rollercoaster Of Fear
Posted on September 26, 2013 //
The surge of adrenalin is spreading outwards from somewhere near my stomach, overtaking my body like a tsunami as I start to experience those familiar feelings of anxiety yet again. My mind is hijacked by “what-if’s”, images of future catastrophes are played out and shown to me in startling detail and my body reacts as […]
Mindfulness For Me And My Clients
Posted on July 29, 2013 //
So I was asked to write a blog about my experiences with mindfulness and how I use it in my job and life. I once had an issue with this and would refer you to my own blog for you to see this first hand. You can find my blog here. In short I felt […]
My Mindfulness Experience
Posted on April 17, 2013 //
By Mick I suppose that I should start at the beginning, with my accident at work in a joiners shop in 1985, when my hand went into a spindle moulder. I had comparatively minor injuries of broken and badly cut fingers and thumb. When I went back to work I had anxiety problems, followed by […]
How Mindfulness Changed My Life
Posted on March 18, 2013 //
By Barbara Buck ‘Waking up is ultimately something that each one of us can only do for ourselves’ Jon Kabat-Zinn I think there is a problem with my enthusiasm for mindfulness and wanting others to benefit from it too. I struggle with keeping quiet, so I am pleased to have this opportunity to write about […]
Incentives
Posted on February 26, 2013 //
By Fabio Zucchelli The word ‘incentive’ always sounded dull to me. If a word could wear clothes, I would have imagined it dressed in a Next suit and Clarks shoes, holding a hard briefcase containing auditing papers and a cucumber sandwich. Its business-speak verb sibling, ‘incentivise’, would be the cockier, more ambitious brother. Sharper of […]
Why Mindfulness Is So Important To Me
Posted on January 27, 2013 //
Here are a few words from Brian (@brianOX4) on why mindfulness is so important to him. Why Mindfulness is so Important to me. I can not stress enough how important mindfulness and meditation are to me. I’ve struggled with depression since I was a teenager and apart from the medication I was prescribed, I would […]