Do you find your mind focuses more on what’s negative than positive? It’s not because more bad stuff is happening in your life it’s the brain’s natural tendency to fixate on problems. This tendency is known as the negativity bias. Any of our ancestors that weren’t looking out for potential threats were more likely to […]
Anger comes in many shades from mild frustration to full-blown outbursts. Anger is a way of protecting ourselves when we feel threatened in some way. But when we take a moment to notice the effects of anger on our bodies, sleep, health and relationships we start to see anger differently. We realise that it causes […]
With so many things competing for our attention in the workplace many of us are feeling stressed and overwhelmed. The ‘always on’ culture and the speed and uncertainty of life today affects our ability to stay focused. We end up being pulled from one thing to another. This not only affects how we perform at […]
Would you like to feel calmer, improve your wellbeing and get more out of life? Then why not come along to this 90 minute mindfulness taster and try out a variety of practices and find out more about the 8 week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course. FIND OUT MORE / BOOK NOW
Did you set yourself some New Year’s resolutions? Did you start out with lots of enthusiasm and now find that things have slipped? Then you are not alone. Research shows that very few people achieve their resolutions and most of us give up before the end of January. All too often with goals, we start […]
Our spring offerings at The College Farm in Long Crendon are now open for bookings: Mindfulness Tasters on 24 March and 19 April 8-week course starts on 10 May
There are lots of good reasons for practising mindfulness but don’t take my word for it have a read of what people say at the end of a mindfulness taster: To avoid rushing To feel calmer To look at your life differently To gain an awareness of reality […]
As part of a mindfulness taster, we always do an eating practice. We slow down the whole process of eating and bring in all of our senses…..looking, smelling, touching and tasting? From this simple practice we discover some very useful things: How much we miss when we are in automatic pilot The importance of bringing into […]
Busy? Then why not take a pause… Do you find yourself rushing through your day moving from one task to another? How often do you hear yourself saying I don’t have enough time? Then perhaps you need to start taking a pause. Taking a pause might seem counterintuitive when you are so busy but there […]
The next mindfulness taster on 4 January 2017 is filling up fast. FIND OUT MORE The next 8 week MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) course starts on 25 January 2017 at the Barns Centre in Thame. Interested? Then why not come along to the taster on 4 January. FIND OUT MORE If the dates don’t work and […]
