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Shower yourself with love this Valentine’s Day
Julia Powell, mindfulness teacher and Business Manager at the Sussex Mindfulness Centre, shares some tips to practice self-love and compassion this Valentine’s day. Why not shower yourself with love this Valentine’s Day? If you struggle with the concept of being kind to yourself, consider these questions. When you’ve made a mistake do you find that you turn on yourself? Do you reprimand and blame yourself perhaps muttering sentiments such as ‘I’m no good at this’ or ‘I’m out of my depth’? So now apart from the actual problem, you have added another layer of distress by being unkind to yourself.…
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Mindfulness for the festive season
Richard Symon, Trainee Clinical Psychologist at Salomons Institute and former psychology graduate volunteer at Sussex Mindfulness Centre, shares some tips to enjoy the festive season with mindfulness. As we move through December, our thoughts tend to focus on the festive season, whatever that means to you. For many of us, the hope is to bring together family and friends and to connect with others. It’s easy for this time of the year to become one of heightened stress, rather than nourishing and recharging experiences that taking time out from the routine or spending times with loved ones could be. Presents…
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Being thankful for small things in life
Robert Marx, Co-Lead for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre shares his experience of holding on to Thanksgiving traditions he learned as a child, and the benefits of being thankful for the small things in life. This week is Thanksgiving. When I lived in the United States, this was my favourite festival: a meal with family and friends like at Christmas, but without all the stress of buying presents. During the meal, everyone would say something that they were grateful for, echoing the early Pilgrims who gave thanks for the harvest and for what the year had brought. I liked this tradition…
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Struggling to make meditation a habit? Here’s what helped me.
Sussex Mindfulness Centre volunteer, Hannah Andrews, shares her experience of attending a retreat in Plum Village, and describes the impact it’s had for her. Not long ago I was a total mindfulness novice. I was aware of its benefits: reduced stress, improved sleep, reduced anxiety etc. There are no side-effects, and it’s free! It seemed a no brainer. I downloaded various apps and promised myself to meditate daily, but it never seemed to stick. I couldn’t get past meditating three days in a row before life would get in the way. I was well aware that I would need to…
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Reasons to pause for thought at Mindful Culture conference
The theme of our conference this year was ‘mindful culture’. With all the many challenges and pressures facing our society and the organisations we work for the topic couldn’t have been more prescient. Speakers and participants posed and answered central questions during key note talks and workshops: What is mindful culture? How can a more mindful culture help improve access to improved mental health and flourishing for all? What is the impact of the wider environment such as social media, the polarisation of debate, the cost-of-living crisis, climate change and the increasing pressures facing children and young people? What are…
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Compassion in challenging times with Dr Thupten Jinpa
We are excited to be hosting Dr Thupten Jinpa for a talk on compassion in challenging times. The Buddhist scholar and principal translator for the Dalai Lama, sets out to answer the question, “How can healthcare providers offer compassion when they themselves face challenging times?” Book your tickets for this online event here. In the talk, co-hosted with the Compassion Institute, Jinpa will touch on the themes facing the human face of the health and social care sector in the UK today. In the wake of unimaginable health crises brought upon by the global pandemic, healthcare professionals, of both physical and…