Tag: acceptance
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Understanding Mindful Movement for Better Wellbeing
Mindful movement involves paying non-judgmental attention to body movements, from small actions to activities like yoga and walking meditation. This practice enhances mindfulness, reduces stress, and promotes better emotional health. It aids trauma healing by reconnecting individuals to body sensations. Accessible to all, mindful movement can be practiced through careful, slow movements.
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How to Alleviate Pain through Mindfulness Practices
This post explores the concept of mindfulness of the body and how we typically avoid feeling unpleasant sensations. Since the pain or discomfort often indicates a temporary condition, resisting it can worsen our suffering. Mindfulness meditation can be used as a way to cope, as it promotes self-compassion and acceptance when experiencing unpleasant sensations.
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Reconnect and Stay Present with Mindfulness of the Body
The post discusses the disconnect many people have from their bodies, prioritizing mental thoughts over physical sensations. This detachment can lead to negative health effects. The author shares personal experiences and suggests mindfulness practices, such as body scanning, to reconnect with the body and embrace sensations for well-being.
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Overthinking
I think that overthinking is a major problem in our lives 😉 It really affects how we function in the world. It can stop us from doing things that are beneficial to us, when we believe we cannot do those for one reason or the other. It can lead us to do things that are…
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Forgiveness
Welcome to the New Year, a time when we often find ourselves reviewing the previous year’s goals and resolutions. Some of us are probably generally satisfied with the accomplishments of some of those goals. Others may be disappointed with how things turned out. I wonder which group do you find yourself in? I usually discover…
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Grateful State of Being
The darkest weeks of winter seem to be also the weeks when most of us celebrate gratitude in one way or another. We give and receive gifts. We feast. We give thanks. Whatever your cultural tradition, there is a high likelihood that you also have some kind of celebration where being grateful is at the…
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Stop Resisting
*** This post is a fragment of my new workbook that will become available to all newsletter subscribers as soon as it is published – you may also want to follow me on Facebook to never miss any of my projects *** Many people believe that accepting something means you don’t want it to change…
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Too Much? Too Loud? Too Big?
I was always told I am too much of something. I was instructed not to speak so much and not to sing so loud. I was asked not to be so emotional. And, certainly, I was told not to eat so much. I was too much, too loud, and too big. For years and years,…
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The Monster Inside
Being a fan of a fantasy genre, in the tv series (based on a book series) “His Dark Materials”, I have very much enjoyed the concept of daemons connected to their human counterparts in a form of an animal companion. In that alternative universe, part of the human soul is simply separated into a physical…
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Healing through belonging
We are social beings; we all need to belong. We literally get ill from loneliness, and we heal by reconnecting to others. I have experienced this phenomenon many times in my own life, as I am sure, most of us did. Even the most introverted of us, those who balance their energy by hiding away…
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