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This month, I am launching the Mindful Life podcast on Spotify.Â
As host, I will be sharing practices, hints and tips on how to bring mindfulness into your daily life. As many of you already know, coming to mindfulness out of sheer need, my approach is no-nonsense and refreshingly simple. So tune in, sit back...and breathe.
This week, you can find short meditations and a trailer audio as to how I got involved in the practice.Â
Check it out here and let me know what subjects you would like me to cover.Â
Enjoy and breathe!
Love Gill x
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In Mindfulness at Work and Home, I describe resilience as that which “prevents you from disappearing down a black hole, folding in and giving up when things go wrong. It moves you from passive to active. From victim to warrior – or somewhere in-between. Resilience is the grit that helps you to get up and carry on in the hope that things will get better. It’s the capacity to adjust positively to difficult life circumstances.”
The good news is that more than five decades of research show that resilience is highly trainable. Moreover, the practice of mindfulness impacts resilience as it helps us to find a place of calm within ourselves and to be more in touch with our motivations and intentions. In short, mindfulness helps us to pause, step back, reflect, shift perspectives, create options, and choose wisely.
Guided Meditation
Conscious Breathing Meditation by Gillian Higgins
Mindfulness at Work and Home has now been published in Israel by Tchelet Books. This Hebrew version has a brand new cover and has been edited by the brilliant Guy Herling. Thanks to all the team at Tchelet.
I think it's time for a trip to the Hebrew Book Fair later this year. Looking forward to meeting some mindful readers and spreading the word in Israel.Â
Enjoy and breathe!Â
The E-book version of Mindfulness at Work and Home is now available direct from Everyday Mindfulness!
To obtain your copy, click here.
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Breathe and Enjoy!
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Tune in to this short video in my which I talk about how mindfulness can help you to tame your inner critical voice.Â
This video is part of the pre-recorded 8-week Everyday Mindfulness course which you can discover here. Enjoy and listen out for the next time that negative voice hits!
This week, The Daisy Garland launched its latest charity film "A Journey of Hope" featuring some of the families they support whose children have drug-resistant epilepsy. The film showcases the impact of the ketogenic diet, their Growing Shoots project, mindfulness and their night-time breathing monitor programme. This campaign aims to provide 46 babies and children with night-time monitors. Please watch and share.Â
https://www.thedaisygarland.
Setting up to teach the weekly mindfulness course to The Daisy Garland this evening from my office on Zoom, I am reminded of what a privilege it is to join this community of parents to practise together. To find out more about the critically important work of The Daisy Garland in the field of drug-resistant epilepsy, click here.
Fancy meditating this week? Why not tune in to eight different short meditations recorded by Gillian Higgins. Click here to get started!
The Body Scan Meditation is a central practice of mindfulness and helps us to connect with our bodies. It is particularly useful when our minds feel scattered. We can use our bodies and sensations that arise as an anchor to our present moment experience which in turn can help to calm the mind.
Try this short body scan meditation recorded by Gillian Higgins and notice how you feel. Click here to begin.
This week Everyday Mindfulness launches the Autumn/Winter Pre-recorded Online 8-Week Mindfulness Course offer. You can find the details of the course here and watch the trailer here.
Ideal for beginners, you can take the course at your own pace with weekly videos, audio-guided meditations, lectures, hints and tips on how to practice mindfulness. Each week, a new theme is explored to explain how mindfulness can make a difference to your daily life. From feeling less stressed to having more self-compassion, from managing your inner critical voice to improving your ability to focus – to name just a few.Â
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