Mindfulness Course

So we kick off with a great first session.

In this video I explain a little bit about how Mindfulness can help us and then we will do an Anchoring technique to ground ourselves and calm down the parasympathetic (I explain what this is, don’t worry there is not too much psychology language).

We also learn how to rate our stress levels.

In this video we will do an Anchoring technique to ground ourselves and calm down the parasympathetic using the senses of breath, hearing and smell.

We also rate your stress levels (it explains this in the video).

For session 3 you will need to bring along an object of your choice.

In this video we will do an Anchoring technique to ground ourselves and calm down the parasympathetic using the senses of breath, sight and touch. Following this will be a little explanation of Self Compassion and a brief self compassion exercise.

We discuss and show you how to log your feelings down as a part of this course to become Mindfully aware of your feelings throughout the day. Worksheet included for this.

For session 4 you will need to bring some food!

In this video we will be doing something a little different but so important as there is one sense we have not experienced yet and that is the sense of taste. However we are not only exploring how we can mindfully taste but also how we are mindfully aware of the whole action of eating and consuming food.

Learn to celebrate when you become Mindful instead of berating yourself for being Mindless. We are often naturally in default mode but noticing this and bringing ourselves back to a Mindful stress free presence is definitely something to celebrate.

For session 5 we will be experiencing Mindful awareness of our emotions.

This session focuses on our emotions.

By doing this exercise we build resilience to difficult emotions by riding the wave of them.

This exercise is called emotion exposure and is helpful to support you to manage and cope with your emotions.

Thoughts are such troublesome things at times, we experience so many during the day and most of them are actually quite unhelpful. They will generally fit into these four categories.

Mindfulness can help us to get some control over our thoughts by just giving them a different channel to go down but also by training ourselves not to attach to them so much and consider them as 'just thoughts'.

Today's session is about finding your compassionate friend through a mindfulness exercise.

This is both a powerful exercise and nurturing and supportive.

In this video we expand the theme of kindness and support, giving it to ourselves and to others and to the whole world!