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How to Be More Mindful with Your Food
Turn your cooking into more of a mindful practice and less of a chore. Did you know when your start to be more mindful with your food and cooking, the whole process of creating food to eat can be meditative and quite relaxing. Cooking can sometimes feel like the last thing on your mind, especially after a long day. However, cooking mindfully and being more mindful with your food can offer loads emotional and mental reset, rather than it being just a means to an end. The process of being mindful is switching our mental state fro being on autopilot to being more present. And you don’t need to practice…
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How to Be At Your Happiest When You’re Alone
Being alone should not be confused with being lonely, and there are many reasons why you should focus on ways of being comfortable being alone. As discussed on Monday, and continuing on from the same discussion, being alone and feeling lonely are too different things. And in these uncertain and strange times, we should all start focusing on ways of adjusting to the idea that at times we will be alone, as the world goes through the motions of dealing with the pandemic. Being alone and being comfortable with it can be incredibly rewarding, if you know how to use the time right, focusing on the serenity of being alone,…
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How to Find a Path to Silence
If you need a little peace and quiet from the crazy world we live in, these simple steps will have you finding peace in no time. Peace and quiet, we all want it, even if we don’t think we need it. Finding a little peace and quite is what helps your mind rest, your body relax and for many, it can even help you work through emotional hard times of stress and anxiety. Though many people who suffer major depression, anxiety and stress often prefer to surround themselves with noise, as the peace makes them think too much, the benefits of being able to master the mind in peace can…
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What is Hand Yoga? And How It Can Help You
Hand yoga, otherwise known as yogic mudras, is where you use specific hand signs to evoke certain energies into the body. They can be practiced while seated, lying down or when walking. Mudras are a way of symbolising to the body, it’s time to let the good energies flow, to help charge up certain areas of the body, such as the heart, the gut, the mind, the third eye and varying other key points of the body. For first time mudras practice, I would suggest that you lay down, or at least prop your body up against a wall. This way, you can take comfort in holding positions for longer,…
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How to Have a Thai Massage at Home
If you’re busy and don’t have time to book yourself in for a massage treatment at your local Thai Massage, try this at home treatment instead. Of course, there are a variety of companies who now come to your home, which is amazing for anyone who is time poor, or uncomfortable with the idea of having a massage out of their comfort zone and would prefer to stay at home in their trackies (Aussie term for sweatsuit, or tracksuit). But if the idea of having someone oil you up for a massage, whether that be at a massage clinic or even in the comfort of your own home is not…
