Everyday Mindful Living

This recording offers you more detail about how this course will unfold and how you can implement this in your life. There are 6 chapters in total although the course will seem longer as the practices are added as separate lessons for ease of access.

This is the practice that goes along with the introduction. A simple guided practice that helps you to give yourself permission to step into this course fully.

Using our breath as a tool to take moments of rest is an easy way of bringing ourselves into the present moment. This lesson focuses on our breath and ways to create an anchor to an action. This way we can create automatic responses with practice.

A shorter recording to listen to as a reminder of how to anchor your breathing practice throughout the day and the benefits of observing your breath at the same time each day.

Chapter two focuses on our awareness and how this plays a part in mindfulness. It is easy to wander through our day mechanically and not actually being aware of anything. Everyday Mindful Living aims to bring you into the present moment to feel and live the day.

A ten minute practice that helps to guide you through your senses from sight, hearing to heart sense and feeling. Often we can use just one sense so much, that it dulls down our other senses.

Chapter Three focuses us on getting curious. It also introduces both a mindful eating practice and what we called a breathing space. Both of these practices are in the following lessons for ease of finding and repeating.

Mindful Eating practice. You can do this with any type of food although the recording guides you through a small piece of apple. Which ever food you decide, make sure the piece that you have is just bite sized and can sit in your mouth easily.

This short three minute breathing practice is a great way of adding space between yourself and a situation. It can bring you back into yourself and to pause for a few moments often calming and enabling a softer focus.

Acceptance is a key element of mindfulness. Chapter Four explores the difference between acceptance and resignation and how true acceptance can actually set you free.

I was going to call this chapter thoughts and feelings and I guess it has everything to do with thoughts and feelings. When we start the process of acceptance it is really easy to criticise ourselves and have thoughts that can be quite harsh. The chapter explores how our thoughts and background dialogue can influence how we feel and the difference of how we respond to situations dependant on where our self esteem and confidence is sat.

A short body scan practice (approximately 3 minutes) that can be practiced at any time and any place; will help us just to pause and check in with our own body and how we feel. This can be used on its own or in conjunction with breathing.

For this last chapter, we recap on all the practices that we have put in place and encourage you to look at your progress, what works and what you can continue. We also explore activities that you can implement to care for your own needs as well as looking at the activities that you do each day and how can your increase the ones that nourish you.