Mindful Blog

Conversations in your head??Do you have these?I do.Usually its one side bringing up doubting thoughts about just about anything.And then the other side replies, offering reassurance and calming advice.But I know that the doubting is an old pattern. It's had lots of...

The unspoken messages and the emotional climate in your home affected you as a child.Especially if there was a lot of criticism, a lot of judgement and a lack of emotional warmth.Can you relate? I can.Maybe the unspoken messages seemed to be about you being a...

Where is the root of happiness?Have you found it?Pleasure and happiness can be found in many every day happenings.......sitting in the spa pool, having a massage, winning Lotto, getting a new car (this one is me), feeling loved, watching a sunset. And these are all...

I'm sure you know lots more than me.I’m sure you have much more knowledge than me.And I do know that keeping up to date with knowledge for your job is important. Though, maybe not all jobs. I have recently been teaching English to International Students again. I...

I want to remind you to trust yourself, when making decisions.Often we think we can’t trust ourselves. The mind gets in tangle trying to work out the best thing to do.We really want to do the right thing. Maybe because we don’t want to get it wrong or someone might...

Are you missing out on happiness and fulfilment?You will be if you are in your head thinking all the time.Do you notice that your thoughts can be swirling and frustration can be growing when you have a problem to solve?Do you notice that your thoughts can go to the...

Want to guess?100? 1,000? 10,000? or more?How about between 12,000 and 80,000. Goodness knows how they counted them. Surely would be harder than counting sheep!This is according to a National Science Foundation article that summarized some research in 2005.Not only...

Can you ever just accept yourself as you are? Or is this too big a thing?What about just accept parts of you?Actually, why not find the parts of you that you don’t judge negatively? Can you do that?We get so hooked into the negative that we can easily overlook the...

What, there is a gift?? Really!!The gift, to put in simple terms was in stopping and resting. I don’t know whether you were able to stop and rest. Maybe there were straight forward reason why you couldn’t. Alternatively, maybe you didn’t let yourself stop and rest....

It happened to me a while ago. Twice! And what did I do? I froze. It felt like a shock. And I didn't respond how I would have liked to. It felt like my brain closed off.Which is actually a classic trauma response - the words felt like a shock - they threatened my...