Choosing Calm From Dawn Till Sleep

Over the next 4 days, you'll bring a fresh perspective to 4 key moments in your day. Moments which have the power to determine your mood, emotional stability and your levels of stress.

It won't require any significant life changes, or an overhaul of your routine. But it will have an immediate impact on your sense of calm, stability and focus. And a lasting impact on your health, stress levels and emotional wellbeing. It only requires you to use one special power:

“Your conscious choice”

In the actions or activities you invest your attention in. The choice you make when you:

1) Identify ‘your’ morning routine and make it more supportive
2) Intentionally pause to break cycles of stress and seed healthier habits
3) Allow the voice of self-compassion to rise above the inner critic
4) Reflect on reasons to be grateful, rewiring your brain for positivity

And through practical examples, we’ll explore how our neurobiology and hard-wired habits and behaviours condition us to react, instead of responding more self-supportively.

Each day we'll share short but powerful practices to transform these habits. And we'll embed them more deeply through Mindfulness meditations, in the body and breath. We’ll cultivate self-compassion and gratitude too.

This course is ideal if you:

- Want to refresh your daily routine and ‘choose’ more moments of calm, stability and focus
- Need to know why we struggle with stress and emotional reactivity, even on our ‘good days”
- Would like a spark of inspiration for your practice and a mindful nudge towards lasting wellbeing,

It’s ideal, if you wish to "choose calm, from dawn till sleep"

Lección 1: Your Morning Routine

In Day 1, we identify the morning routine we already have and the impact it has on everything from mood and stress levels, to our ability to focus and regulate emotion.

Together we'll make our first conscious choice - to make our existing routine more mindful. After this, setting an intention to find deeper calm through a grounding body and breath practice.

Lección 2: STOP for a Breaktime Breather

In Day 2 we discuss how how stressful moments and tension build up, regardless of a calm or stabilising beginning to our day.

How we can benefit from having a circuit-breaker for stress. But also a practice which prevents the build up of this stressful 'wear and tear' on our bodies and minds. The STOP practice will help us do this in two ways.

Lección 3: Self-Compassionate Evening De-Stress

In Day 3, we recognise the voice of the inner critic. A voice which generates a large volume of negative self-talk, which embeds deep in our emotional memory.

And we counterbalance this with a voice, rarely heard - the voice of self-compassion.

Instead of increasing emotional reactivity, we increase gestures of self-kindness and understanding. Easing stress and emotional discomfort with a nourishing evening self-compassion practice.

Lección 4: Night-time Gratitude

In Day 4, we acknowledge that despite our best efforts, it may still prove difficult to retain our calm and balance. Our new healthier routine. Life can hamper the very best of our intentions!

So together we will make use of our brain's "plasticity" - its ability to reorganise and build new neural pathways - strengthening and forming new habits in the process.

And by cultivating Night-time Gratitude together, we will invite nourishing moments to sink deep into our emotional memory, supporting healthy, restoring sleep in the process.

Reviews

Excellent course. Wonderful reminder to be grounded and grateful.

Excellent, four-day course really helped to relax me and find deep self compassion

Good exercises and meditation ideas to help you keep mindful during the day

Thank you Derek 🙏I have found this course to be hugely supportive for easing the everyday stresses and strains that can easily occur on any given day. I really appreciate how you offer the perfect practices to engage in at each stage of the day ‘from dusk to sleep’. It is encouraging to know mindfulness can come to the rescue in a variety of ways depending on the time and circumstance we are facing. I also value your deep knowledge of the science behind why our minds suffer in different moments, as well as why the practices and meditation are reliable antidotes. Thank you for your authenticity, wisdom, guidance and compassion. Very grateful for your wonderful teaching 🙏

I have enjoyed being reminded of mindful ways to calm my days from dawn until night. Derek continues to provide great advice, with examples we can all relate to and his gently spoken, simple meditations are always most relaxing. 🙏🏻🕊️✨☔️🌊🌤️