My mindfulness course diary

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5 course takeways

I thought it would be useful to note here, what doing a mindfulness-based course gave me, as a testimonial for anyone considering attendi...

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Wk 7 Commitment

This is about the final week (week 7) of the mindfulness course I did. I definitely noticed this week that I have established a formal mi...

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Wk 6 Embracing imperfection

This is a post about my findings from week 6 of practicing mindfulness. Have you noticed that you are often gifted with a situation at th...

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Wk 5 Dialling down emotion

This post is about week 5 of the mindfulness course I did. Something amazing happened on the weekend; I dialled down an emotional reactio...

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Wk 4 Ticking the box

This post summarises how I found week 4 of the mindfulness course I did. This week our home practice alternated between Body Scan meditat...

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Wk 3 Being with the steering wheel

This post shares what happened during week 3 of the mindfulness course I did. I am really enjoying the mindfulness course I am doing. I h...

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Wk 2 Moving the attention spotlight

This post outlines my findings from week 2 of the mindfulness course. This week our home practice was the Body Scan.  This is entirely di...

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Wk 1 Establishing a formal practice

The main focus of week 1 of my Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course or indeed any mindfulness course is establishing a daily ...

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