Mindfulness reminds us to do everything with awareness. Our formal practice strengthens our ability to be mindful in everyday life. Bringing mindfulness to our life simply means coming out of automatic pilot and doing things with awareness. As Thich Nhat Hanh says, when you walk, just walk. When you eat, just eat. While mindfulness really is as simple as this, perhaps we can see that sometimes it is the opposite of our usual habits. How often do we grab a snack or a meal thin

It's Thursday and I am planning for my next few mindfulness drop-in sessions. I notice that I'm trying to make sure I include new practices alongside the core mindfulness practices of sitting and bodyscan meditation. I don't want people to get bored or to feel that the sessions are always the same. But why? After all, people happily attend exercise classes where they repeat the same moves week after week. In doing so they can feel their bodies changing, perhaps getting a litt