Tristan’s Story

Tristan is now a regular contributor to our forum under the guise of BioSattva; I thank him for his excellent contributions. Here he has given us the story of how he came to mindfulness. Once again showing how each individual journey to mindfulness  is unique and indeed inspirational. Tristan’s Story Maybe it was growing up [...]

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My Mindfulness Experience

Mick has recently joined our forum and directed us to his mindfulness story, which I have published here. It’s a story which illustrates to us the extreme power that mindfulness can have. In this case mindfulness proved to be the difference between life and death. This is an upsetting story, but one that is ultimately a [...]

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My Mindfulness Story

Many thanks to Rebecca for telling us her story of how she came to mindfulness, or rather how mindfulness came to her. It’s beautifully written, if you want to read anything else by Rebecca, then you can find her site here. Everyone has there own reason for coming to mindfulness, read Rebecca’s here: My Mindfulness [...]

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How Mindfulness Changed My Life

A million thanks to Barbara for starting us a Facebook page that you can find here. Let’s continue to spread the word of this phenomenal thing. If you want to make suggestions on how you think the page should look, I know that Barbara would love to hear them. Come and add your voice to [...]

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Falling Off The Cushion

The new Everyday Mindfulness blog is from Toffer Surovec, whose regular blog can be found here. The blog teaches an important lesson: that it’s no use pretending to ourselves that we don’t need to practise regularly. Our brains tend towards mindlessness when we don’t devote the time to being in the present moment on purpose. [...]

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Remembering To Be Mindful

This blog from Ruth once again shows the benefite of regular meditation. A couple of years ago, when I was just beginning this journey, I went on holiday to Spain and figured that I didn’t need to meditate – I was on holiday after all. By the end of the holiday, I could tell that [...]

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Incentives

This is an interesting blog from Fabio talking about how it is important to practise in the good times as well as the bad. It also re-inforces to me the fact that mindfulness practice is a very personal affair. No two people’s practice will be the same. We all must grow into our practice, and [...]

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Mindfulness Is More Than A Set Of Techniques

Thank you to Danny for this wonderful piece. Danny agreed to write a blog for us a little while back, and I had kind of forgotten about it until it landed in my inbox a few days ago. I really enjoyed this as a piece, and it has made me reflect on my own practice. [...]

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Why Mindfulness Is So Important To Me

Here are a few words from Brian (@brianOX4) on why mindfulness is so important to him. Why Mindfulness is so Important to me. I can not stress enough how important mindfulness and meditation are to me. I’ve struggled with depression since I was a teenager and apart from the medication I was prescribed, I would [...]

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MS, Mindfulness & Me

After my own blog about MS & mindfulness, I came across this blog from Ilja Aussems who also uses mindfulness as a way of living with her. I have decided to make this the current Everyday Mindfulness blog, as it is a subject close to my own heart. The blog illustrates the central tenet of [...]

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