Mind Full: Un-wreck your head, de-stress your life

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You’ll discover that learning to meditate doesn’t require you to blow up your life and move to Nepal, but it does help you make very small changes that make a long-lasting difference. With exclusive access to Dermot’s guided meditations, Mind Full will help you restore your sense of fulfillment, happiness and true contentment. Emotion regulation: There is evidence that mindfulness can facilitate emotion regulation in the brain. Studies show that meditation may elicit positive emotions and minimize negative affect, helping us to more efficiently control our emotions. Anyone can do it.Mindfulness practice cultivates universal human qualities and does not require anyone to change their beliefs. Everyone can benefit and it’s easy to learn. Mind Full is playwright Tom Hartwell’s humorous and disarming new play that brings the importance of sleep health into the spotlight. James suffers from insomnia post-breakup and his ex-partner Claire is the voiceover for his Mindfulness app.

Go Zen provides online programs to help kids learn self-regulation skills and overcome anxiety. They focus on building resilience to overcome negative thinking, perfectionism, anger, and worry. Mindfulness is a quality that every human being already possesses, it’s not something you have to conjure up, you just have to learn how to access it. The Types of Mindfulness PracticeIt involves the practice of affirming your interconnectivity with the planet and life itself, whether through nature hikes, coastline cleanup, or digging in a garden. Feelyour breath.Bring your attention to the physical sensation of breathing: the air moving through your nose or mouth, the rising and falling of your belly, or your chest. According to Mindful.org, mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness” by Jon Kabat-Zinn Connect with nature. Get outside! Take a walk in nature, whether that be in your neighborhood, at a park, in the woods, or on the beach. Listen to the sounds of nature, look around, and be present in your surroundings.

A good way to start is to use your senses. Hear what you hear - the loud sounds and the quiet sounds. Feel what you feel. Notice how your clothes feel on your body. Notice any tension. What do you see? What do you taste? Is it toothpaste or your last meal?Kabat-Zinn combined his studies of Hatha yoga with mindfulness practices and Buddhist principles he learned from his many teachers. It is understandable to want to stop thinking about difficult things. But trying to get rid of upsetting thoughts can often make us think about them even more. Empathy and compassion: Research suggests that mindfulness practice can enhance our ability to experience empathy and compassion toward others, in turn strengthening interpersonal relationships. This could be due to the nonjudgmental attitudes that are cultivated in mindfulness practice. While mindfulness is something we all naturally possess, it’s more readily available to us when we practice on a daily basis.