Posts Tagged ‘mindfulness’
15 Ways to Find Calm In Under 5 Minutes
How calm are you feeling right now on this Saturday afternoon? What do you do when you feel the stress and anxiety build up? Are you able to calm yourself down?
If you need some tips then this is a really useful article to read as Tina Williamson of Barefootbeginnings.net has taken the time to give some great advice.
The tips range from active techniques such as going for a walk, playing soothing music , writing things down and stretching to more inner focus techniques such as meditation, finding a new perspective and a different frame of mind.
Tina concludes by saying: ‘Peace is not in tomorrows moments, or yesterday’s; it’s right now!’
23 Incredibly Empowering Quotes That Will Change Your Life
Every so often you come across a gem of a blog and here in my opinion is one such gem. Elle in her blog ‘reflectingalife.com’ talks about those times when we need to be inspired. When the negative self-talk begins to take over Elle has put together quotes to put you back on track. Elle believes repeating an empowering quote that resonates with you can be really beneficial and very effective at banishing those negative thoughts.
Take a look at the list and see which ones stand out to you. I think this might vary depending on how you are feeling today. My favourite one today is by someone unknown.
”It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.”
Overcoming Autopilot: The Challenge of Focusing Attention
Have you ever had the experience of driving your car somewhere, parking up and then realising that you have no idea of how you got there, no idea of the route you have taken? You have been on autopilot.
Leanne Reed challenges you to overcome this state of autopilot. To focus in on the present. To be mindful! She remarks that this is much easier to do for pleasant experiences like looking at a beautiful sunset for example but so much harder for painful, difficult experiences or even neutral ones such as a car journey.
She says that we are constantly caught up in the current content of our thoughts and this can prevent us from being mindful; really taking notice of the present moment.
Why not take a read of her article and have a go at her suggested experiment of following your breath. Let me know how you get on!
BBC News – Are we close to making human ‘mind control’ a reality?
Researchers have now found a way to connect our brains together via the internet. The stuff of sci-fi movies is becoming reality. Experiments from the University of Washington have shown that brains can communicate across distance when connected up to the experimental equipment which is used in electroencephalography (measuring brain activity from the scalp).
A simple experiment was carried out University of Washington where researcher Rajesh Rao, left, played a computer game with his mind. Connected up across campus, researcher Andrea Stocco, carried out the commands instructed by Rajesh by involuntarily pressing keys on a computer keyboard.
Read on to find out the implications of this fascinating research.
BBC News – Are we close to making human ‘mind control’ a reality?.
7 Quick Tips to Lower Your Anxiety Today
Do you want easy actionable steps to reduce your feelings of anxiety? Would you like to get started today?
Linda Esposito from talktherapybiz.com can help!
She has produced a great short video that takes you through seven different tips to reduce anxiety. You can also print out the pdf to carry around with you so that you can remind yourself what each of the tips are.
The tips include techniques such as closing your eyes to the stimulations around you, deep breathing and making a conscious effort to banish negative words from your vocabulary. She also suggests that you limit your to-do list to just two things which you plan the night before and that you tighten your boundaries.
It’s really worth taking a look!
5 Ways To Quiet a Racing Mind
If you’re one of those people who is tired during the day and then your mind is racing all night so that you can’t sleep then this article is for you.
Ben Fanning, a burnout specialist, has been there too and come out the other side. He used to lie awake at night thinking about what he had to do the next day, all the things he should have done but didn’t and worrying about everything else in general.
So how to get a good nights sleep then? He takes you through five different ways to calm your mind so that you can rest well, be happier and think more clearly!
5 Ways To Quiet a Racing Mind – Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement.