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In recent years, mindfulness has gained immense popularity as a practice to promote wellbeing and reduce stress; however, a new phenomenon known as 'McMindfulness' has emerged, raising concerns among may mindfulness practitioners. In this article, I’ll delve into the concept of McMindfulness to understand some of its implications.

Losing the motivation to practise mindfulness meditation is a common experience, it happens to most people from time to time. You might want to try some of my tips to help regain your motivation.

If you’ve tried mindfulness before – perhaps by using an app of joining a class – you might have had thoughts like “This is hard” or “How can something so simple be so difficult?”. In this article, I offer encouragement to keep going and some practical tips to keep you on the path.

It's been said that “mindful children grow into mindful teenagers, mindful adolescents and then into mindful adults”. Here's a brief introduction to mindfulness for children, plus a 'how to' video including the Square Breaths technique.

The 'head clutcher' seems to be so prevalent in stock photography libraries and search engines, that someone somewhere has clearly decided that this particular body language represents what it’s like to live with a mental health condition.

This blog post highlights four of my favourite meditation-related podcasts, in no particular order. In different ways, these podcasts have helped my personal development immensely.

During a mindfulness and wellbeing course I’ve been running recently, a participant highlighted a recurring obstacle to practising meditation which they’d encountered: namely, sleepiness.

Today marks another annual Earth Day, which is a global event with more than a billion people taking part in events, petitions and clean-up projects to protect the environment. Every year on 22nd April, Earth Day has a different theme and 2021’s theme is ‘Restore Our Earth’.

Combining this insight with mindfulness means that rather than always having to pass judgement on things and declare them as good or bad, I think we can shift some of our fixed habits of thinking and seeing the world, which can be incredibly empowering.

In the 1980s, psychologist Thomas Borkovec created a four-step therapy model for people who worry excessively. The foundation of his approach is that if we worry throughout the day we start to associate certain places with worry; when we see those places again, we automatically start worrying.