Anxiety, Adult Coloring Books & Mindfulness
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/26/adult-colouring-in-books-anxiety-stress-mindfulness She said sometimes, when really on edge, “if I haven’t had enough work or enough the week before, or there’s a big bill coming up, my husband will actually say, just go and do some colouring, and he’ll watch the telly. We’re like toddlers who parallel play”. There is a crossover with mindfulness and…
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is remembering to be present in the moment, learning to relate to our thoughts and our feelings in a way that goes against the grain of our conditioning. It is a way of unbecoming what we are not. Mindfulness is the awareness and approach to life that arises from paying attention on purpose, fully…
Everyday Mindfulness
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." ~ Rosa Parks #mindfulness — Everyday Mindfulness (@mindfuleveryday) March 18, 2015
Mindfulness: does it really live up to the hype?
"I sleep better, I laugh more, I am less prone to compulsive actions. " @PollyVernon talks about #mindfulness: http://t.co/rtmmYGfcZ8 — Everyday Mindfulness (@mindfuleveryday) November 10, 2014 That’s without considering how uneasily mindfulness co-exists with my life as a media trollop. My professional life depends on my not being mindful. On the raging, combative narcissism of a…
Opinion: Meditating on the Frenemy
In the television series “Burn Notice” the narrative device of the frenemy succeeds, over the course of seven seasons, in unveilling the protaganist, MIchael Westen, as a good man who has done bad things to protect his loved ones. He has compromised his integrity in the service of a higher calling recognising that sometimes white…
Mindfulness meditation may ease anxiety, mental stress
But when researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD sifted through nearly 19,000 meditation studies, they found 47 trials that addressed those issues and met their criteria for well-designed studies. Their findings, published in this week’s JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that mindfulness meditation can help ease psychological stresses like anxiety, depression, and pain. This…
@mindfuleveryday Excerpt on Mindfulness Reposting Sharon Bull
http://www.everyday-mindfulness.org/the-mindfulness-habit-from-mindlessness-to-mindfulness/ Looking back I realise I was one of countless people living with stress, unhappiness, depression, anxiety, addiction and pain. I was trudging through life on autopilot without realising the harm I was doing to myself, simply from my negative thoughts and feelings. Without realising it, I had become yet another individual who had fallen…
Don’t be afraid to change @mindfuleveryday
Don’t be afraid to change. You may lose something good but you may gain something better. #mindfulness — Everyday Mindfulness (@mindfuleveryday) September 17, 2014 Mindfulness is “the intentional, accepting and non-judgmental focus of one’s attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment”,[1] which can be trained by meditational practices[1] derived from…
Mindfulness and Marriage
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donna-rockwell-psyd/mindfulness-in-everyday-l_4_b_5788380.html On an Internet marriage website, blogger Andy Goddard shared that he had read the book Good to Great and learned that the characteristic shared by successful CEOs is humility. The same is true, he thinks, in marriage. “The partners in successful marriages,” he writes, “are both humble, teachable, and willing to learn. “This willingness…