Falling in Love During Lockdown - part 2
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Following on from Tiger Lily’s ‘Sanctuary in the City #2 - Falling in Love During Lockdown, comes part 2, as she finds love outside on her daily walks and takes it back inside.
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Invite More Joy into Your Everyday Life
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Joy helps us press through the inevitable stress and challenges of our days. Here are some questions to help you discover and engage your sense of joy, and some common ways to boost joy every day, shared by Jacquelyn J Salvador.
Read MoreNo Wellbeing on a Dead Planet: Hope, Mindfulness and Extinction Rebellion
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Natalie Cristal Morrison has an important message of hope and awakening for us. If you are one of the many that feels overwhelmed by the burdens our current environmental situation then this is a must read.
Read MoreGuided Woodland Sounds Meditation
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Meditate on the sounds of nature. This short and gentle practice will clear the mind, reset the energy and plant seeds for a wonderful day.
Read MoreMaking Contentment and Happiness Co-Exist
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There's a difference between pushing toward happiness, and finding happiness in where we are today, but they don’t have to be opposing forces. In fact, they work best in harmony, as wellness author & professional Jacquelyn J Salvador shares in today’s piece.
A Year of Mindfulness
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As we approach our first birthday, we want to celebrate by sifting back through the archives and sharing our highlights. Today we are looking back on a year’s worth of mindfulness from Natalie Morrison.
Read MoreFeeling all the Feelings: Hurt and Pain
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Jen Woodward examines why and how we might back away from our painful experiences. Numbing them might be easier, but those feelings often manifest in unhealthy ways and we tend to make the same mistakes again. Learn how to show up and face your feelings.
Read MoreZoned Out? Try Tuning In
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Let’s be honest: we all zone out from time to time. Our bodies are present but our minds are elsewhere, often focused on less-than-useful things. So how can we break those negative habits? Here’s one very simple way.
Read MoreWhat is Yoga Nidra?
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‘Defrag the mind’ with a yoga nidra practice. Simple yet powerful, a yoga nidra practice can produce healing that leads to significant life changes. Founded in the yogic belief that to change the external experience of life requires changing the inner landscape of the mind, it builds the strength of whilst resting and restoring balance.
Read MoreDon't Just Reach - Rest Too
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We’re surrounded by a message that insists always doing more, and that can make us feel like there’s no time for rest. Rest, however, is an integral part of being able to reach higher.
Read MoreEmbracing Your Edges
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How often are you prepared to go to your edge places? To really place yourself in a situation you know will challenge you to your limits in some way. Once a week? Once a month? Once a year? How often would you like it to be? What holds you back?
Read MoreWhatever Happened to Wonder?
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How much time do you spend thinking about things that are unrelated to what you’re doing, missing out on the wonders of the present moment? Here’s why we ought to rediscover our childlike sense of wonder by fully engaging with the present.
Read MoreHow to Pick a Meditation Practice
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Meditation is popular and there are many types of practices to choose from. How do you know what to pick and how it will help you? We put together a simple and pragmatic approach to select meditation practices that evolve as your intentions change with time.
Read MoreRedefining a Life of Luxury
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Mindfulness is a way of being. What’s often missing in the white-washed zen-style imagery that can shape our preconceptions of this practice is that it can really make our lives pop into a glorious, widened spectrum of emotions and senses.
Read MoreLightening the Load of Being a ‘Me’
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Natalie Cristal Morrison takes a look at the baggage associated with ‘being’ and provides some practical mindfulness exercises for lightening the load a little
Read MoreAfter Abundance; On Becoming the ‘Less Is More’ Generation
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The term ‘Bodhicitta’ in Sanskrit means a mind that strives towards awakening for the collective wellbeing of all. Beyond surface-level stress reduction, mindfulness-based meditation practices and ways of living can bring us closer to that sense of profound comfort and ease within ourselves that exists whenever we are thinking and acting out of our innate sense of compassion and connection with other beings.
Read MoreAvoiding Wastage: A Mindful Personal Accounting System
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Natalie takes a look at how preventing waste in our own internal world can have a lasting impact the way we treat external resources. She offers the practice of Mindfulness as one potential solution to the economy of waste that we find ourselves in. This is meditation and activism all rolled into one.
Read MoreOn Interbeing: Cultivating Deep Connection to Others and the World
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In the coming decade, a radical shift of humanity towards a more ingrained sense of interconnectedness with others and the environment is needed to keep the forces of greed and self-interest that are causing so much suffering and that have the potential to cause irreparable damage to our planet in check. No less than the lives of our children depend on it.
Read More"Leaning In" to Our Lives
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As we are able to be more open, to lean in to greater extremes of both good and bad in our immediate environment with love, without fear, everything shines more. Our lives become richer. And we become more interesting because we are more interested.
Read MoreThe Vital Role of Connection
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How to be more present and connected for yourself and others
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