Hello everyone and happy Mindful Monday!
Thank you so much to everyone who last week joined in on our morning mindfulness activity. To be honest, I kept forgetting 😅 but that's ok. It just means that activity was not right for me.
So, for today, I just wanted to share a resource! In the past, I've LOVED the Headspace App. But it's quite expensive and definitely not accessible to all of us! And I recently discovered that they have a youtube where they have full length sleep meditations and some great 5(ish) minute long videos. Click here to access their youtube.
For me, I used to use sleep meditations to sleep and every so often, my sleep problems come up again. I always fall back to headspace for this!
Let me know in this thread if you've found this useful!
Acknowledging the experiences that can make mindfulness harder for us to engage with:
We would like to acknowledge that mindfulness is not for everyone and can feel distressing for people living with a history of trauma. We invite you to participate in this if you feel comfortable to, and take from it what you like. You know you and what works for you best
Some helpful things to remember when practicing mindfulness is to exercise your right to choose and only do what feels right for you, take breaks, and make an external anchor point, such as a sound instead of the internal world, if that is too overwhelming for you. Sometimes opening your eyes and focusing on an external object can be helpful. You can find more information about this here https://davidtreleaven.com/
And for those who asked to be tagged in the first of these posts, I'l tag you here @Wavecurl @Shasan @LostAngel @Dimity @nony @Gwynn @Peri @Codex1 @Everan @Anastasia @NatureLover @Appleblossom @Snowie @BPDSurvivor @Clawde @Shaz51 @Bow @BlueBay @Emelia8 @StuF and others who have also been part of mindfulness recently @AussieRecharger @utopia @pinklollipop15 @Krishna
