Mindful Attitudes; Trust
Here’s a big one for you this week. Trust. It’s one of the 7 attitudinal foundations of mindfulness and something I believe should be cultivated whether you practice mindfulness or not. The big question here or the big misunderstanding here is do we need to cultivate trust in other people or trust in ourselves. Well...
How to Deal With Criticism Mindfully
It’s never nice to be criticised. However, sometimes it’s a necessary part of our growth and development. As you become an adult you learn to deal with a certain amount of criticism but this tends to be only accepted from people who can give this in a certain way. Even as adults, it’s easy to take offence and fly...
The TV Nanny
One of the main issues in the last few decades has been the involvement of TV, computer games, and tablets in our parenting. Perhaps you are finding that your kids won’t sleep without an obligatory 30 minute iPad time? Maybe they turn the TV on as soon as they are home from school? Do you wake up to find that they’ve...
How To Smash Your New Year’s Resolution’s
A New Year brings resolutions. Resolutions bring guilt and stress. We all want to make this next year our best yet. Perhaps you want to give up smoking, maybe lose some weight, join a gym etc…The problem with resolutions is they end up being empty promises and you end up feeling disappointed with yourself for not following...
Why you are overthinking
Ever wondered why we overthink? We over think because when we are in ego-mode or ‘doing’ mode which is the planning part of our mind, we need to think. The problem is that we don’t shift gears when we should. Ideally, ‘doing’ mode would be for planning only and we would shift into ‘being’...
Why Mindful Relationships Are Better
I think back to someone I once knew, and his parents were a good example of non-mindful relationships. The parents had been divorced for many years and one of them had remarried but they were still (after around 20 years) out to get each other. These were people in there mid to late 50’s. Surely they should know better right?...
Are you on autopilot?!
We are spending our days walking around on autopilot. That’s a really scary prospect. How many times have you driven from A to B and not remembered the journey? This is because you’re on autopilot.This is not a good thing!We are missing all the beautiful things that are going on around us. We are missing the simple things that...