Our mind likes to travel through time: it jumps into the future and pops back to the past. Dr Claire O’Driscoll Lawrie of St Patrick’s Mental Health Services leads us through an exercise in which we take a few minutes to observe where our mind goes. Take a few minutes out just for you and […]
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If you would like your children to start some mindfulness, balloon breathing is a brilliant exercise to start with. Using fun imagery, this allows your child’s to slow down, breathe mindfully and use the power of their imagination.
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This episode is all about becoming more mindful in your day to day life. It recognises that mindfulness doesn’t need to be meditation. Mindfulness in its most simple form is having an awareness of your present experience, without any judgement for that experience. That could mean you are mindful when you recognise how tough your
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Wake up or wind down with some mindful stretching at some point this week. Easy to follow and relaxing to do. Take 15 minutes and look after yourself 🙂
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Mindfulness is a practice which enables us to focus on the present moment, to take notice of our thoughts, feelings and what is going on around us without judgement, and to calm our minds. In this workshop, Debbie van Tonder, Programme Manager of our Dean Clinics, explains what mindfulness means, and brings us through a
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Join author and meditation teacher Conor Creighton for a short guided meditation, as part of our special season for Pieta Darkness into Light 2021.
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A short and simple 5 minute breathing exercise to help relieve some tension in your shoulders and bring you into the present moment with structured box breathing. Enjoy 🙂
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Being busy is one of the backbones of Irish Culture. If we aren’t on the go, be it with work, study, sport or socializing, then we are doing something wrong. Amongst all of our busy-ness, it is easy to fall into a state of automatic pilot where our senses fall into the background and we
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Much of the anxiety and stress that we experience can be felt in our bodies. After a stressful week we can come home with tension all over, be it our shoulders, our neck, our jaw or our forehead. The Tense and Release exercise is a great way to remove some of that tension and can
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