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 isContinue Reading

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 fromContinue Reading

"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 theContinue Reading

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 likeContinue Reading

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 yetContinue Reading

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 trainedContinue Reading

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, andContinue Reading