Life might be busy and vibrant with its usual ups and downs but how does our world feel from the inside? Maybe a little grey and lifeless? Are there emotions that we have been avoiding? Can we simply be in touch with how we feel? Prince Harry set a fine example recently by speaking out on how he suppressed his emotions about the death of his mother. Years passed as he carried on with his partying, working and living a life full of advantages. Yet bubbling under the surface wa

It wasn't what I had expected, and at this stage I wasn't overly impressed. In my case I was pretty sure that he was wrong. I had come on this course for professional reasons, as a Clinical Psychologist, hoping to improve my career prospects by adding mindfulness teaching to my repertoire. I had a calm and stable temperament with no history of psychological or emotional problems. Over the following months, as I practised and studied mindfulness, my awareness started to deepen

I recently read a blog post which made some interesting points about back pain. The argument presented was that back pain is not caused by heavy lifting. If it was it would likely be much more of a problem than it is for elite rowers who are pulling a large amount of weight through their curved backs on a regular basis. Rather, the post argued, back pain is far more likely to be due to inactivity and muscle weakness, leading to an intolerance of normal patterns of movement an

“can we want what we already have?” -Esther Perel Mating in Captivity Mindfulness has many different descriptions, though most of these descriptions are united in the way they see, and practice mindfulness. Most approaches to mindfulness recognise the human minds habitual tendency to wander into distraction, to get caught up in ruminating; often on the past or agitating on future worries, often in a kind of dreamy imagination. This can be experienced in a very mild way, but a