Category: Mindfulness
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Grudges, be gone!
You work hard, you achieve plenty, but sometimes something, or someone gets in your way. Someone ‘photobombs’ your perfect life. And that makes you frustrated and disappointed; nobody likes a party-pooper. [Image source: Bored Panda has plenty of great photobombing photos here] The trick is to feel those negative emotions…
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Consipracy theories and chronic pain
When I was younger (and I’m talking about everything from my teens to my 30s) I LOVED unsolved mysteries. The Mary Celeste comes instantly to mind – it was the boat that was found floating on the Atlantic in the 1870s. The ship was undamaged, loaded with food, and yet…
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A holey revelation
Every now and then, life hands you a strange revelation… sometimes it comes in the form of a blinding-light styled epiphany, a “Eureka!” moment of extreme enthusiasm… other times, it comes as more of a muted “huh.” I guess it doesn’t matter which way a revelation arrives, only that you…
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Cool, calm and collected
One of the upsides of practicing mindfulness techniques over the last year is the sense of serenity that is slowly creeping into my revived soul. I move slightly slower and with more intentionality, for example, and not just when I am practicing Tai Chi. When I am putting the dry…
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“The neuroscience of mindfulness”
A while ago I posted about “Mindfulness and its discontents”, a book I picked up from the university library. In the same visit I also picked up another book, titled “The neuroscience of mindfulness” by Australian neuroscientist Stan Rodski (2019). The book starts straight out with why we need mindfulness;…
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You gotta have good foundations
If you want a building to stay standing… you gotta have foundations. Tents don’t have foundations… and tents blow away when they’re subjected to a little bit of wind-blowing-pressure. A skyscraper, on the other hand, well it has structural members that go deeeeeep underground, so that it can stay standing…
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My bloomin’ orchids
I love reading other blogs, and while I was out and about a while ago, I came across a post: Waiting for trees to bud is good because it is hard – Incense and Crayons. Towards the end of the post the author writes: “This practice of watching trees grow…
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Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) for chronic pain
A few weeks ago I read a post on LinkedIn by Migraine Ireland that referred to something called Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). I’ve never heard of it before, but it instantly caught my attention as something that might be helpful for my healing journey. In their post they wrote: “Compassion…
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Nothing is inconsequential… including you
While I was busy living my life over the last 50 years, I generally assumed that the little things were essentially inconsequential… “Don’t sweat the small stuff” and all that jazz. Scraped your knee? Meh… it will heal. Arrive late to a meeting by a few minutes? Accidents happen. Did…
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