How could I look at my wife and son when I was about to let them down in one of the worst ways possible? Shame and fear so overwhelmed me that even the sound of my child’s laugh was a reminder of my failure. I hid away in the bedroom desperately waiting for some miracle […]
How Mindfulness Helped To Hush My Negative Thinking
Posted on January 22, 2016 //
By Anna Alapatt My negative self-talk has been within me for as long as I can remember. When I was a little girl, it would manifest in many different ways: my grades at school, my dance classes, or my singing lessons. From the time I was twelve, I remember thinking that I was never good […]
Nothing stays as it is, everything changes and mindfulness is the gift that helps us accept that
Posted on September 24, 2015 //
By Singhashri Gazmuri Here’s a truth. If you think you’ve got it wrong, you’re right. You’ve got it wrong. You’ve got it absolutely wrong. I learned this hard truth at age 16 when the relief of death finally came for my mother – and for me. We weren’t particularly close, in fact we fought endlessly. She […]
The Hidden Beauty In Your Struggle
Posted on May 27, 2015 //
Have you ever had that sinking feeling? You know, the one when you felt like you were coping well with life, happy even, and then – bam! – here comes yet another struggle. You wonder ‘why me?, haven’t I had my share of problems already?’, and ‘what’s wrong with me that I can’t just get […]
Monkey Mind to Mindfulness
Posted on March 18, 2015 //
by Amy McMillan Busy mind? Preoccupied with future planning? A ‘bit of a worrier’? For twenty-seven years, this was my life. My brain was often a classic example of what Buddhists call the ‘monkey mind’. I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t slightly on edge, even during childhood. I prided myself on my active […]
The Big One: The Habit That Stops Us Living Mindfully
Posted on February 27, 2015 //
What do we want? To live a life of peace and contentedness, in touch with ourselves (and each other) and in harmony with the planet? Or a life of continuous dissatisfaction, discontent and unease, polluting the planet and over-consuming its resources, even though it makes us feel no better at all? Yeah, easy choice right?! […]
How To Be Happy, Just As You Are
Posted on February 27, 2015 //
For an awfully long time, I believed that I could only be happy when I’d changed something about myself. For example, when I was more calm and confident, or when I stopped making mistakes and always got everything right. Only once I’d become that other person (I believed) could I stop feeling there was something […]
Why Mindfulness Needs Kindness
Posted on January 5, 2015 //
by Sheila Bayliss When I first started practising mindfulness, I hit a bit of a roadblock when it came to the part about letting unpleasant feelings be there. Not trying to change things that were unpleasant just felt plain wrong. You see, I was desperate to get rid of my anxiety. At the time I […]