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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…