Does Mindfulness really help us to feel calmer?
I have a friend who lives near Newcastle airport. We teach Mindfulness together, and when we can we like to sit together in her back...
Being Like a Mountain
It came as a surprise to me initially that the ongoing work we do in mindfulness training involved so much bodywork or embodiment (why is...
Managing Pain: The Case for Compassion
For most of my career I have worked as a Clinical Psychologist in Pain Management, trying to help people with long term pain to respond...
Mindfulness and the Trouble with Tribbles
Star Trek and mindfulness? Is that really logical? A few nights ago, I was flicking restlessly through the Freeview channels on my TV...
Top 3 Tips to beat exam stress
As exam season approaches it's natural to feel anxious. Exams, or other forms of stress can have a real impact on health and wellbeing....
Feeling Dead or Becoming Alive?
Life might be busy and vibrant with its usual ups and downs but how does our world feel from the inside? Maybe a little grey and...
A complete mess and nothing wrong
It wasn't what I had expected, and at this stage I wasn't overly impressed. In my case I was pretty sure that he was wrong. I had come on...
Rules about Pain
I recently read a blog post which made some interesting points about back pain. The argument presented was that back pain is not caused...
Kind Club
Last summer I attended a conference at Samye Ling Buddhist Monastary and retreat centre which was run by the Mindfulness Association in...
A Change in Direction
Last month, after 16 years in a job that I was comfortable in, good at and well paid for I moved on to a new and different challenge. To...
