Category: Mindfulness
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EFT tapping for migraines
About a month ago I attended an online seminar about mindfulness and was introduced to the idea of “EFT”. Not knowing what it was about, the host then asked us to follow a sequence where we began ‘tapping’ ourselves. She would suggest something positive we should say (for example “even…
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Fridge poetry for pain
Chances are you know someone who has Fridge Poetry; those little magnetic words that you can arrange and rearrange to make poems on your fridge. I used to have an irrational jealousy of people who owned them. Why I never went out and bought my own set, I don’t know……
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Compassion for Overwhelm
Quite by accident, I came across a mindful-meditation teacher called Tara Brach. I found her while searching for information about self-compassion and discovered that she had written a book called ‘Radical Compassion’. I haven’t had a chance to look into it yet, but my attention was caught by a video…
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Is there such a thing as over-nurturing?
As I was watering the parsley pot plant on my kitchen windowsill this morning, I tried to figure out why it looked a bit sadder than normal. I realized that the soil was saturated. Someone else – possibly everyone else – in my family was watering the parsley pot plant.…
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‘Mindful-lite’ and ‘inchstones’
When I look back on the beginning of my holistic healing journey, I realize that I was a bit ‘intense’. Due to my chronic migraines, I had reached such a low place, and needed to make such drastic changes, that I went into ‘bed-bound bootcamp’ mode. The program that I…
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Body-shaming
In Australia we have a ‘reality’ television show in which people who have been unlucky in love are paired up by experts, and then ‘married at first sight’. The couples are then expected to get to know each other and fall madly in love, all while the cameras are rolling. …
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Buddhism, nasal sprays and AI blog crawlers
This morning was a strange morning, made up of two negatives and a positive. I set off early to get ahead of the rush at the local Medical Centre, intent on getting a script for a nasal spray version of my migraine abortive. After waiting forty minutes to see the…
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AI art for migraines
‘AI art for migraines’ is the weirdest title I have written so far on my mindful migraine blogging journey. It came about for two reasons. The first is that I’ve been thinking a lot about art therapy and how people gain so much comfort from mindful activities such as painting,…
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Float tanks for migraines
A couple of years ago (when I was still only getting occasional migraines), my family bought me a 3-pack gift card to a float tank as a relaxing treat. My first thought was terror; I had a mental image of a giant silver bullet filled with water that you climbed…
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