1 Year Mindfulness Challenge
A Year of Mindfulness – 38 – Smartphone
What an eye-opening task this week’s was! Week 38 of the mindfulness challenge was the week of the smartphone. The idea is that by having our smartphone forever in our reach, it can be tough to find stillness and be mindful. For this task, every time I picked up my phone to do anything, I […]
MoreA Year of Mindfulness – 37 – Bad Habits
Bad habits. Everybody has them. But some differ greatly to others. Bad habits might consist of swearing (guilty), drinking too much (guilty again!), smoking or overeating, among many others. They vary from person to person, though many people might find themselves having a bad habit that’s shared by others. For week 37 of the mindfulness […]
MoreA Year of Mindfulness – 36 – Awe
About three weeks ago, I picked the week of ‘awe’ out of the mindfulness challenge jar. It’s possibly my favourite task yet! The very first sentence got me excited. It said: “When was the last time you were wonderstruck? When you couldn’t help but soak up the sheer scale and/or beauty of something?” Wow. A […]
MoreA Year of Mindfulness – 35 – Gratitude II
Week 35 was the week of gratitude II, but I’m not entirely sure that I ever did Gratitude I! If I have done it already, I didn’t write about it which seems odd. Maybe I’ll pick it out of the jar in coming weeks, let’s just hope that I didn’t have to do 1 before […]
MoreA Year of Mindfulness – 34 – Goodness
The first week in October was week 34 of the mindfulness challenge, the week of goodness. It was essential this week to take the time to notice the good things that happen each day, and write down three things that made me happy before each day was out. I had to think about each one […]
MoreA Year of Mindfulness – 33 – Self Compassion
I’ve succumbed to another blogging backlog but have no fear, I’m catching up once again in order (albeit with a few of the more boring weeks left off because I want to finish the challenge before the year’s out and I’m running out of time)! Week 34 was the week commencing 7th September and was […]
MoreA Year of Mindfulness – 32 – Watching
Is it just me, or does this week’s title make you think of a stalker? Don’t worry, there’s nothing weird about this week’s task, it’s actually one that I already implemented in my life a while back, so it was fairly easy! This week’s task card referred to the season change and I thought it […]
MoreA Year of Mindfulness – 31 – Decluttering
Woohoo! Sing it from the rooftops, finally a task that I did and enjoyed. This week is much better than last week’s task! Week 31 (w/c 24th August) – the week of mindful decluttering! Now this is a task I can get on board with! This week’s task was about making things nice and tidy. […]
MoreA Year of Mindfulness – 30 – Squishing
Incoming rant alert. This week’s task (which was the w/c 17th August) was the week of ‘squishing’, where each day before I got up I was to take a few minutes to complete the exercise. The exercise involved squeezing every muscle in my body tight, holding everything tense for a few moments, and then releasing. […]
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