We all know the expression: “Did you get out of bed on the wrong side this morning?” Indeed, a bad mood is often the result of a bad morning routine. The morning makes or breaks the day. The start of [Read More]

Without thinking twice, I picked up a crayon and began to color in with my daughter. It was only after a couple of minutes that I sort of came to and realised that “this is actually really therapeutic”. On the [Read More]

We all know that feeling. In fact, for many of us it is a constant theme looping uncontrollably through our lives. I’ve got so many things to do! You keep telling yourself this. You tell everyone else, especially those who [Read More]

We all need a touch of inspiration to reignite the fire in our soul, be it to stimulate creative ideas for a project we are working on or simply to break the monotony of life’s autopilot and lose ourselves in the [Read More]

Eating is intimately connected to mindfulness, well at least eating natural foods is, anyway. This is because vegetables, plants, fruits and animals are part of the same interdependent cycle of life that we belong to. We, like every other living organism, are [Read More]

It won’t be long before all we need to do is hold up a palm and swipe our skin to make calls and access Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all the other social networks. Considering just how much of an [Read More]

Mindfulness exercises are becoming increasingly popular as a holistic way to temper stress and anxiety, and as an alternative form of meditation to tame the ‘monkey mind’. Being mindful simply means being fully present and aware in the moment; to [Read More]

Whether you travel to an office or work from home in a spare room, like most people in the modern day you probably suffer from “taking your work home ” syndrome. Whether you can’t stop mentioning stuff that happened at [Read More]

Are you feeling stressed or irritated? Are you about to scream out loud or pull your hair out? Then try this little mindfulness trick to re-centre and re-balance. Whenever you feel like you can’t settle down to get anything done, [Read More]

I’ve developed a fair few ways to bring my mind to center over the years. Most are innovations of using the breath and my surroundings to focus my awareness and still my thoughts. Today I want to share with you [Read More]