Category: Easy
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(Subconscious) Visualization for healing
Visualization is a means of imagining yourself into another place or time… or imagining anyone anywhere for that matter. At the start of this year, I gifted myself a New Year’s Revelation which included manifesting a peaceful-yet-powerful version of myself, and since then, I have been using visualization to help…
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DIY healing wand
Everyone, everywhere, who suffers from chronic pain would love to have a magic wand that they could abracadabra their pain away. At least, I assume so, which is possibly overreach… but I doubt it. Anyway – the idea of making myself a magic wand has been simmering in the backburners…
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Ugly art therapy
I’m a big believer in ‘the art of distraction‘ and know from firsthand experience that when we slip into ‘the flow’ of creating something (be it sewing, kiddy craft or a short story) we can forget about time, our surroundings, and most importantly, our pain. I’ve also written in the…
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Dark showering for migraines
There’s something very mood-affirming about finding out that the way you live, or the strange habits you have acquired over time, are suddenly considered ‘mainstream’ or ‘on trend’. The first time I felt weirdly vindicated was during the Australian Covid lockdown when everyone had to stay home all day, every…
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A letter from my future self
Late last year I read a lovely post over on the blog Urban Wellbeing Tips, which was titled “Sunday letter to my younger self what I know now”. The idea of such a letter is not a new thing, but Rohitash has a lovely way with words, so be sure…
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Go on: hug yourself!
Now that I had graduated from my PhD studies and can call myself Dr Linda, I have no need to read technical books anymore… and yet… some habits are hard to break. As such, I’m still reading a lot of non-fiction works, but now their topic tends to be all…
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Make a wish (on an old lady)
When I was a child, it was fairly standard to spot the golden yellow flowers of a dandelion in unmown grass, head over, and gently pluck out one of the fluffy-seed-puff-balls. Then you would blow on the poor uprooted plant and make a wish as you watched the winged-seeds fly…
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Tai Chi Walking
OK – so you know how to walk, and if you’ve been visiting my site for a while, you might have noticed I’m pretty passionate about Tai Chi as a mindfulness technique to help reduce (or distract you from) your chronic pain. [You can see more in my interview with…
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Unclench your fists
OK, so the heading probably sounds a bit dramatic, something along the lines of “lay down your weapons”… especially given the crazy-scary state of the world right now. But that’s not where I’m coming from. I’m not trying to be figurative, or metaphorical – just purely literal. Throughout the day:…
The Mindful Migraine 