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The relationship between Meditation and Resilience

As we continue into 2025 with the world becoming more complex and precarious with each day, now more than ever we need resilience. But what does this mean? Well, resilience is really about the process and outcome of dealing with life’s setbacks. How we ‘bounce back’ if you like.

It may help you to think of ‘resilience’ as four different types:

Physical Resilience: The ability of the body to face challenges, maintain stamina and recover within a reasonable time. Naturally, our physical resilience diminishes as we age.

Emotional Resilience: The ability to regulate your emotions in the…

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New Year: Improvement Over Change

For many of us, the New Year often starts with making promises to ourselves to go ‘dry’ or participate in ‘Veganuary’. These kinds of radical changes are rarely sustained beyond January – we say we don’t have time or resources but really we fail because we do not change the underlying behavioural patterns.

It is a natural phenomenon of being human that we are driven to want more, to need more. However, most of us seek this externally. We drive for the next promotion, the bigger house, the bigger car etc. Often this leads to feelings of anxiety, stress…

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Light Up Your Christmas: Candles and Small Gifts to Brighten the Season

Ah, Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year! There’s a nip in the air, festive lights twinkling everywhere, and the delightful scent of pine and cinnamon wafting through homes. But what make this season magical? It’s the thoughtful little touches like the warm glow of a candle or the joy of unwrapping a carefully chosen gift.

If your’e looking to add a sprinkle of enchantment to your Christmas, look no further than my candles and small gifts.

Each one is handcrafted because like you, each one is unique. Consciously created to help raise your emotional vibration and…

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How to do a Body Scan Meditation

Knowing how to complete a body scan is a great meditation skill to develop as it helps you become more aware of your body, including physical sensations from stress. When we become aware of what our body is telling us, we are better placed to understand how any physical discomfort in our body is playing into our emotional state.

There is no set time it takes to do a body scan. Utilise what time you have, whether that’s 3 minutes or 30. Here is a framework you can adapt for your own needs:

1. Get comfortable. You may…

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Why October is the most Spiritual Month of the Year

October is my favourite month of the year. I think my Celtic ancestry may have a part to play in that but it wasn’t until a friend invited me to share her nuptials on 31 October one year that I learned that this date is celebrated as the Witches’ New Year. It’s a powerful milestone in the spiritual calendar, a time when the veil between this earthly world and the spirit world becomes sheet thin.

With its roots in Samhain (read: paganism) it’s a time when nature begins its transformation, shedding the vibrancy of summer, to begin to turn…

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Meditate for Peace : Change your Inner World, Impact the Outer World

“When you have inner peace, then you automatically succeed in what you do. The more silent you are from inside, the more powerful your thoughts and actions become.” ~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

It is striking to note that here in the West ‘Peace’ of any kind – Inner Peace, Peace of mind, even World Peace – seems to elude us. We search for it everywhere and are prepared to pay handsomely for someone to give it to us whether that’s drugs, alcohol, shopping, expensive holidays etc. We will even start wars in the name of peace.

Yet,…

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Why it takes a lot of self compassion to be a meditator

When I was struggling to cope with a toxic work and home life, feeling like I had nowhere ‘safe’ to be, I undertook a course of traditional psychotherapy in an attempt to unfuck my life. However, my appointments were straight after work and I found that I was either off loading my day or just talking about past traumatic events. In return the therapist listened and barely asked me anything. I never came away from any session feeling like I’d taken steps forward in my healing or indeed had tools in my toolkit that would help me become resilient enough…

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Transform your emotions through meditation

Emotions are often referred to as ‘energy in motion’. They are reactions we have to an external event happening to us. They rise, they peak and then they dissipate. During this process psychologists believe we have a subjective experience, a physiological response, and a behavioural response. The depth of the emotion felt on any of those levels depends on what triggers the emotion. For example, we might receive good news so will experience high states of joy or happiness. Or, we might be told to do something we don’t want to do by the boss and might become mildly irritated…

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Breathe and Calm the Mind

The mind is constantly ‘on’. So how do we give it a break? Having a breathwork practice to support your daily meditation is a good way of keeping the mind healthy as it draws focus away from the thoughts to the breath.

Yogic breathwork is know as ‘pranayama’. It is different to the Wim Hof style breathwork that is currently very popular. That said, there are many benefits from this type of breathwork as it gets more oxygen into the body and increases the use of lung capacity. However, the Sanskrit word ‘pranayama’ refers to a different breathwork concept.…

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Different Types of Meditation

‘Meditation’ is the new buzz word among the cool kids! But with everyone suddenly being an expert, how do you know which techniques have integrity and what style of practice works for you?

As a meditation teacher, I believe most people wouldn’t need persuading on the physical benefits of a consistent meditation practice but it saddens me that despite a world of information and knowledge at our fingertips every minute of the day, there is still an assumption that all meditation techniques are the same and are designed to make you ‘relax’.

No, No, No!

The mind is…

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