It’s Claustrophobic in Here!
How does it feel inside your mind? With constant thinking, worrying, problem-solving and self-criticizing, it can sometimes feel claustrophobic. A bit like being stuck in your head with blinkers surrounding your eyes. A small space that walls you in and fear shuts you down. You go round and round in circles with the same old…
Read MoreMeditate for Vibrant Serenity
When you sit and meditate you are entering your own inner space. It’s not a passive, stuck space. Nor is it an escape, but a place that contains an active, vibrant serenity. A vibrant serenity Firstly meditation can be a space of calm and peace. As you gather in your scattered thoughts you let yourself…
Read MoreEasy Introduction to Meditation
6 easy steps to help you with meditation Intention: decide that meditation is something you want to do. Schedule your practice each day. Choose a 10 minute slot at a time that suits you the best. Choose a comfortable place to sit undisturbed. Notice your body, mood and thoughts. Continue with your stillness and soften…
Read MoreJoy and peace for this July
Place of Serenity Newsletter Hi everyone I’ve gathered together my most recent blog posts for this July newsletter. They cover a range of subjects and I hope you will dip into some of them and find them helpful. Sending you thoughts of joy and peace as we continue to navigate these sometimes uneasy times. Best…
Read MoreBenefits of Nasal Breathing
Your Breath Breathing is intimately connected to every part of your body. Your breath is your life! We take approximately 25,000 breaths a day but many of us are not breathing correctly. We breathe through the mouth or shallow breathe, resulting in other parts of the body having to compensate for this. Breathing correctly with…
Read MoreMindful Walking for Clarity and Calm
Mindful walking has been essential for me in these recent times. Have you also found a greater connection to walking and enjoying nature? Mindful walking in nature, which for me, often means ‘sauntering’, leads to clarity and calm. When it’s Not Mindful Walking Mindful walking is a great way to connect back with your body…
Read MoreHome Sweet Home
Lockdown in your Home ‘Home sweet home’: is it your place to relax, have fun and be nourished? Most of us have been spending a lot more time here with recent pandemic experiences. You might have a work or study area where tension has been building up. And then there’s your kitchen with all the…
Read MoreA Change of Perspective
Two ways to think of ‘perspective’ It seems fitting that the word ‘perspective’ has many perspectives! Here we explore two ways to think of ‘perspective’. The first is when we sometimes get hooked into anxiety and lose our perspective. The second is when we realise that our perspective keeps us more unconscious than we ever…
Read MoreBeautiful Reminders
Place of Serenity Newsletter: Hi everyone Following the above quote, today’s newsletter contains mindful updates to help with exactly this. Offering you beautiful reminders to keep your heart and mind uplifted. I have a couple of blog posts and 3 of my most recent SoundCloud ‘Moments of Meditation’. Scroll down and dip in! What Does it Mean to…
Read MoreNurture Hope and Inner Strength in your Life
As we continue to be in a transitional stage of upheaval and disruption in the world, how can you nurture hope and inner strength in your life? It could be easy to feel despair and hopelessness Yet: An active state of hope holds the field of potential for the highest possibilities for beautiful positive change.…
Read MoreWhat Does it Mean to Live in Beauty?
Beauty is the subject for many poets, artists and philosophers. Let’s look at a patchwork quilt of ideas about what it could mean to live in beauty. Beauty as a feeling ‘Bear Heart’ from the Muskogee tribe of Native American Indians says: ‘… the way to attain the beauty in life is through harmony. Be…
Read MoreMoments of Meditation
Place of Serenity Newsletter Hi everyone Let’s keep our hearts open and uplifted! I have been adding moments of meditation to the Place of Serenity Soundcloud to help you. They are short and accessible. You are welcome to click in and listen and do let me know whether they are helpful for you. Scroll down…
Read MoreJust 5 Minutes
Place of Serenity Newsletter: Click on the link for 5 minutes of meditation: On Place of Serenity: SoundCloud Hi everyone I hope you are keeping in good health. Today I offer you a short recording and two blog posts. Stay uplifted in a state of hope and unabashed brilliance! MOMENTS OF MINDFULNESS: I will be posting short…
Read MoreLearn online Mindfulness and Meditation
Original picture from Pixabay by Jiao Tang Now may be a good time for you to learn online how to live from your heart through mindfulness and meditation! You can do this as a One-to-One Course or in a Group Course. Here are 5 suggestions that may resonate with you: 1 Learn online with others,…
Read MoreHow Mindfulness Helps in this Time of Covid19
Perhaps you wonder how mindfulness helps in these unusual times of Covid19. We don’t know what the future holds, but then we never did. This is mindfulness in action; the habits and assumptions we’ve perhaps always made, we now realise were never certainties. Mindfulness invites us to be present and not take things for granted.…
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