Posts Tagged ‘mindfulness’

I’m a firm believer in the adage ‘if you give a busy person something to do they will do it’. I know when I am moping around, with time up my sleeve, I procrastinate and make poor use of my time. When I am flat out and everyone wants a piece of me, I am super productive…until it all comes crumbling down. Finding a...

Oxygen is the most essential element to life – this we all know.  All the functions of our body are regulated by oxygen. In fact 90% of our life energy depends upon it. It goes without saying that oxygen is essential in building and maintaining our bodies. According to Dr. David S. Dyer the author of Cellfood Vital...

Change! It’s scary but necessary to move forward. I’ve written about the concept of change before – it’s a part of life that I have always struggled with. I embrace the fact that to be successful it’s essential to move outside your comfort zone. As I always say, if you keep doing what you are doing, you’ll keep...

We all have the ability to infuse our bodies with additional energy to enhance the body’s natural healing process. The laying on of hands as in Reiki is particularly effective.  No matter where your hands are placed on your body, the energy, which is channelled through your hands, is attracted to the area where it is...

It’s time to start practicing what I preach. For the most part I do follow my own advice but the one area where I often fall down is my meditation practice. I had a session with a Chinese Medicine Herbalist and acupuncturist last week. Francis from Balance Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine suggested that I had way too...

One of the most proactive actions we can take towards improving our emotional and general wellbeing is to learn how to become more forgiving.  We’ve all suffered hurts and harboured resentments towards another at some time. The key point here is that if the hurt occurred at some time other than now and if we still...

The other morning I was getting dressed for work, with my phone in one hand texting a photographer about a client photo shoot planned for later in the day, coffee cup in the other, with my mind on everything other than what I was doing at that particular moment in time. Now tripping up the stairs and spilling my...

When we are charged with negative emotion and resist experiencing the emotion fully we are unable to process it and let it go. Any unprocessed emotion then becomes part of who we think we are and we identify with that emotion which then becomes part of the “all about me” story. If, however, we manage to remain mindful...

Meditation is one of the best tools to balance our emotions and let go of stress and tension…that is until you get so frustrated with the incessant thoughts running through your head that it defeats the purpose of meditating. I have always struggled to meditate. My brain goes a million miles an hour and I used to get...

It’s a new year and with that comes resolutions, diets, detoxes, fresh starts and a whole lot of talk. We all start out with great intentions at the beginning of a new year. Whether our energy is directed towards improving our heath or fitness, stepping up the corporate ladder, buying a house or dedicating more time...