I’ve developed a fair few ways to bring my mind to center over the years. Most are innovations of using the breath and my surroundings to focus my awareness and still my thoughts. Today I want to share with you a new method I use when taking an afternoon nap to recharge my brain. This…Read More

A while ago I penned a post on Mindfulness Exercises for Kids. The post has been pretty popular and was subsequently read by the creators of Mindful Magazine. Back in June, the editor contacted me with some questions on the subject, and as a result I have a small feature in the August edition. It’s a wonderful…Read More

We are constantly propelled along by our emotions, with our mental and physical state becoming a product of the way we feel. We have varying ways of dealing with emotions, both holistic and medicinal: When over-excited we might take a few deep breaths and divert our attention elsewhere for a while, and when feeling down we might…Read More

In this fast-paced, competitive world, we can become incredibly driven and impatient, and that drive and impatience is primarily motivated by time. We live in the worry that we don’t have time to get where we need to go, to do what we need to do and to become who we aspire to be. Seldom…Read More

“Don’t be so ridiculous”, my mother always said, “Rain can’t make you sick; germs make you sick”. And not too long ago a doctor friend of mine confirmed this. The only way the rain can make you sick, is if the rain water contains germs that you swallow or fall into your eyes, he said, in not…Read More

This post came about after a reader sent me an email asking whether I have any mindfulness exercises for kids. But before we get into a few ideas, I think it’s important to understand the following… …When it comes to mindfulness and kids, the way forward is creativity and fun, rather than pushing them into seated meditation,…Read More

If you have a mind that bounces around like a flea, like me, you probably find it hard to settle your mind and be present without thinking about what you will do next, tomorrow or sometime next week. Oftentimes this perpetual thinking causes us to worry, stress and fear things, as we allow ourselves to…Read More

By definition, consumerism is in total contrast to mindfulness: The preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods, or, put another way; the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically desirable.  Consumerism encourages us to be on the lookout for the next best thing, when more often what we have is still in good condition,…Read More

Sorting through emails sounds like a laborious task; I mean, why bother when you have 15 GB worth of storage to use up, and the benefit of filters to sort through them when need be. Well, just recently I came to a point where I’d had enough of the endless pages of my inbox and…Read More

In this busy world of ours, the mind is constantly pulled from pillar to post, scattering our thoughts and emotions and leaving us feeling stressed, highly-strung and at times quite anxious. Most of us don’t have five minutes to sit down and relax, let alone 30 minutes or more for a meditation session. But it…Read More