Articles and blog posts written by team members, tutors and supervisors of the Mindfulness Association about how they bring mindfulness into their lives.
As far as I can tell, feeling stressed at times is a very common feature of the lives of people I encounter. I can’t remember every having talked with someone about stress and the other person not knowing what I was talking about… Luckily, although few of us might be free of it, it’s not…
New Compassion Based Living Course Book LINK TO SEE THE BOOK! The Compassion Based Living Course, is a self-guided compassion course based on Choden and Heather’s fifteen years’ experience of teaching in depth compassion meditation courses to thousands of students. It draws on compassion teachings and practices from Mahayana Buddhism, which have been adapted to…
‘The extraordinary often resides within the ordinary, waiting to be noticed.’ What if the joy, peace and meaning you long for are never far away? We think of the important and precious moments of life as occasions like births, weddings or graduations, but what about when you finally wake up feeling well after a…
Usually, we teach the compassion course to people who have already started on their mindfulness journey – maybe they had learned mindfulness from you and were asking ‘what’s next? How do I continue growing what I’ve learned so far, how can I deepen my practice?’ When people first come together for a mindfulness course, it…
New Mindfulness Course Starting in January 2025 Course Link: Mindfulness Level One Monday Evenings Do you ever have a feeling of exasperation at the pace of your own learning? That sense that you’re coming up against the same patterns, or you again experience a very familiar set of feelings, and you hear yourself say:…
Why might you want to take a pause? At the Mindfulness Association we believe in the benefit of bringing Mindfulness into daily life. This means learning to be mindful throughout our day as well as periods of sitting practice. By incorporating daily life practices such as ‘Taking in the Good’, a 3 Stage Breathing Space,…
Knowing What is Happening While it is Happening Our definition of Mindfulness from the founder of the Mindfulness Association – Rob Nairn World Mindfulness Day has been celebrated on the 12th September since 2011 as a way of raising awareness of the benefits of mindfulness. People from all backgrounds across the world have come together…
Did you used to have an imaginary friend when you were a child? Do you still? I asked this question not so long ago in a group of mindfulness and compassion practitioners, and there was laughter in the room in response. A few brave hands went up, but judging by the response, it seemed I…
The way I was taught to approach poetry at school, although fascinating in its own way, didn’t foster a long-term love of it. I remember there being so many things I was supposed to be able to say about a poem – about alliteration, rhyme, pentameter, simile, metaphor… More frustratingly I was supposed to ‘get’…