Category: Moderate
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Sandcastles for pain relief
A while ago, I was down the coast and took the dogs for a walk on an isolated beach. This beach has signs up that tell you “no dogs off leash”, but, due to the beach’s remote location, it happened to be completely free of other people or dogs. I’m…
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Segment intending – or as I like to say: “chunking”
One of the difficulties of getting through a standard day when you’re feeling under the weather (whether it’s mood-wise, pain-wise, or motivation-wise), is that there is always a lot of things that need to get done AND whilst there might be a lot of time to get it done, that…
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The art of distraction
I have a bestie over on LinkedIn, a lovely lady called Tracy (who has inspired me previously with her idea that Japanese Kintsugi pottery is a metaphor for living with pain). Well, she recently sent me a photo of a pretty pink floral painting she had made while she was…
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Manifesting with blue ink on white paper
I usually do the ironing on a Sunday afternoon to get the family ready for the week ahead. It’s not one of my favorite chores, so I often listen to podcasts while I do it (it’s my way of remixing my life like a DJ!). In one of the podcasts,…
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Visualizing movement for chronic pain and insomnia
One of the things that I have discovered after practicing Tai Chi, Qigong or Yin Yoga often enough is that you start to gain ‘muscle memory’. Your body begins to recall the repeated actions, and they get easier and more automatic. Remember, I’m very much a beginner in all three…
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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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Make a healing mandala
When I first started my holistic healing journey just over a year ago, I woke up and decided I was sick of being sick, and it was time to take things into my own hands so I could get better. The first thing I did was to write a program…
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Mindfulness… just sew
Sewing, cross-stitch, embroidery, knitting… they are all mindful techniques that can create a deep sense of relaxed concentration that becomes something of a state of Zen. Truly! I’ve recently been trying long-stitch, and I’m often surprised at how much I get ‘lost in the moment’ and ‘time flies’. It is…
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Manifesting migraines away
Manifesting is the act of making something happen by imagining that it will. It’s sort of a combination of ‘positive thinking’, ‘mind over matter’ and ‘the law of attraction’. I believe that we do have a certain amount of control over our localized destiny, and as such I see no…
The Mindful Migraine 