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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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8-Week Daily Meditation – What Happened?
Today, it is time to review the 8-week period of daily meditation. What happened, or did anything happen at all? Well, based on my weekly posts related to this mindfulness based stress reduction program, you can already imagine that something happened. Now, I want to recap on this experience and let you know how I will move forward after this. I haven’t talked about this in my earlier posts, but this mindfulness based stress reduction program is an official 8 week program developed in 1970s at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center by professor Jon Kabatt-Zinn. What happens during these 8 weeks is clearly defined in terms of how much…
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Challenge Yourself – Traveling and Mindfulness
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 time I want to write about how to combine traveling and mindfulness. During this month I have been traveling for work, and I made a commitment with myself not to forget my daily meditation routine even though I was traveling. This was a real challenge as my mind was fully focused on work-related topics. But I gave it a go. So how I did it? Keep reading if you want to know. What is traveling…
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MBSR week 6: Accepting and Letting Go
This week has been about letting go. I cannot imagine that soon this 8-week MBSR program will be over. Time has gone quickly, but now I also realize how much I have learnt about mindfulness as well as about myself during these weeks. Even though the program will come to an end, mindfulness will definitely stay in my life after this 8-week period. Something in me has changed during the past week, I cannot tell exactly what it is, but I can feel it. I think this might have something to do with last Sunday, when we had an intensive day and practiced mindfulness for many hours together in our…
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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 – Mindfulness At Work
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 mindfulness at work. When thinking about mindfulness, we might easily associate it as a thing to do at home, behind closed doors and all by ourselves without any distractions. Home is a good place to start practicing mindfulness, but it for sure isn’t the only possible place. We spend a big part of our lives at work, so why not bringing mindfulness to work as well? Once the work mode switches…
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MBSR week 3: Observing Thoughts, Sensations and Emotions
The third week of MBSR is now completed. How is it going? During this week’s Zoom session, on top of the body scan and sitting practice, we were introduced to mindful yoga. The purpose was to add mindful yoga to the daily practices on top of the sitting practice and body scan exercise. First this sounded a bit of a challenge to me, because the time to be spent on daily practice seems to be growing each week, however I realized that I can split the time and spend for example 15mins for body scan and another 15 minutes for the sitting practice. On top of that, I practiced mindful…
