Thanks for joining me for the second in our series of blog posts about Rest. If you haven’t caught the first one, you can find it here: How Rest is the antidote to becoming exhausted. In today’s blog, we are going to look at a helpful idea called “The Exhaustion Funnel”. This is based on …
Thanks so much for dropping in here. I’m excited to start a series of blog posts all about Rest! You might picture rest as just sleeping. Or you might think it’s a waste of time! I’d like to help you see that Rest is powerful. It’s the most important antidote to becoming overwhelmed, exhausted, or …
Pain Acceptance Meditation This is a short meditation practice to help with accepting pain. Usually we avoid experiencing the actual pain. We tend to get caught up in the worries and memories associated with the pain. In this practice we stay with the real sensations that are there… and this can help us to reduce …
This is a famous Buddhist story. Someone is shot with an arrow, and the Buddha then talks about how the arrow that shot them wasn’t the real problem. The real problem was the second arrow. What’s this metaphor about? Surely the actual arrow is the problem, what’s this second arrow? Let’s look at a difficult …
Here are some thoughts on how to supercharge your meditation. Take a Challenge One idea can be to commit to several days of practice in a row. I like five-day challenges. That’s something that we regularly run in the mindfulness community, and people get a real boost from committing to something as simple as meditating …
Here are the main things to help maintain a good routine for your meditation practice. Time of Day The place Posture Before and After Before I jump into these four tips, I’ll share two principles that make your practice more likely to progress… It takes Time The first principle is that you need to do …
Sometimes anxiety is helpful! I’m a big fan of trying to see things clearly. Especially when we are dealing with difficulties or challenges in our lives. It’s great to stand back, take a broader view and see how things look from there. In this post about Anxiety, I want to look at whether it’s always …
how to use mindfulness for untangling anxiety Untangling Anxiety. Mindfulness is so helpful with this. Mindfulness allows us to see anxiety much more clearly. The challenge with anxiety (and all difficult emotions) is that we get really tangled up in them. It becomes a big combination of feelings and thoughts and experiences in the …
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Fear and anxiety and how to understand the difference? To understand anxiety, it is really helpful to see the difference between Fear and Anxiety. We may think that these two emotions are almost the same thing… but they are not. And it’s possible to clearly understand the difference between them. Just a quick background comment …
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Episode Summary This week Keith shares two stories that taught him a lot about Compassion… He also teaches a short compassion practice to do over breakfast! Transcript Welcome to Episode 10. This week, it’s all about compassion, but not compassion in the way you might think we assume compassion is something we do for others, …
