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What happens when you slow down?
What can happen when you decide to slow down? My latest posts have been very much related to meditation and mindfulness, but today I want to take few steps back and discuss more in a general level about the importance of slowing down. What slowing down actually means, how to it and what are its benefits and impact into your life? I might not be wrong once saying that we desperately need help. We need to make some changes in order to stay healthy and sane. We need to learn to manage our lives in a more sustainable way and at the same time try to cope with everything that’s…
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MBSR weeks 7 & 8: Nourishing Body & Mind
Today I write about nourishing body and mind. I decided to combine the last two weeks of the mindfulness based stress reduction course into this one post, because the past two weeks I have mainly focused on this same topic. The daily meditation has already become a routine for me, and during these weeks I have tried to expand mindful living in not only into my daily meditation practices but into my daily life in general. Mindfulness increases awareness, which brings us towards the topic of self-care and wellbeing. What I have learnt once becoming more connected with my body and mind, I have started to recognize more clearly what…
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Challenge Yourself – Mindful Yoga
Are you ready to challenge yourself? Here, I give you some effective mindfulness based practices that you can start doing already today! All you need is an open mind and you’re good to go. This week I challenge you to try out mindful yoga. If you have practiced yoga before, this one might be an easy challenge for you. But what is great in it, is that you don’t need to have any prior experience from yoga or any other sports either. This is for everyone. Let’s start! What is mindful yoga? Before going into how to start practicing mindful yoga, I will first let you know what it is…
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Challenge Yourself – Self Reflection Journal
Are you ready to challenge yourself? Here, I give you some effective mindfulness based practices that you can start doing already today! All you need is an open mind and you’re good to go. This week’s challenge is about writing a self reflection journal. You might already be familiar with gratitude journals, for example. Therefore you might think that this is nothing new and might want to skip this, but I still suggest you to keep reading and decide once finished, whether you will accept this challenge or not. This is something different than the usual ones, I promise. What is a self reflection journal? Self reflection journal is a…
