“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.” – Robert Kiyosaki “Why did I do that?” […]
TedTalk by Andy Puddicombe on the benefits of being present-focused.
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it was different.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Slow breathing is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm….
If you aren’t practicing mindfulness…..you are practicing reactivity – Jon Kabat-Zinn Do you ever have those moments of driving somewhere and when you arrive at your destination you can’t remember how you got there? It can be an unsettling sensation! The tendency for our minds to get lost in memories, regrets, daydreams and worries can […]
Observation Without Evaluation
The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement the thought, ‘What nonsense!’ shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation. – Marshall Rosenberg
Google ‘books on positive thinking’ and you’ll get pages of results. In fact, the ‘power of positive thinking’ is such a strong belief in pop psychology that challenging it can seem heretical. Yet put in another way, if we are feeling sad, scared or, anxious but tell ourselves we just need to think positively to […]
Breathing is a funny thing, we’ve been doing it since we were born and generally don’t think much about it. But in terms of anxiety management, gaining a deeper understanding of the mechanics and role of the breath is extremely useful. Jon Kabat-Zinn related that in a survey of several hundred patients who had completed […]