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Perhaps you have dropped by my blog to pick up some meditation advice, or maybe you are in a situation at work, or in your relationship that is prompting you to look for some answers.
Whatever the reason is that you are here, welcome! I hope you find what you are looking for and if by chance, you don’t find it then drop me an email and let me know what you are interested in. I will see if I can help.
The blogs that you will find here deal with different aspects of wellbeing, along with all the ways in which we can undermine ourselves as we try to achieve it. It’s a funny thing but don’t you find that much as we want to change and grow, we can still manage to get in our own way?
One of the special features of the Awareness in Action blog is the wide range of meditations and exercises we include to help us work with the habits that we have developed in order to help us cope but that actually get in our way. As we learn to make these techniques part of our everyday life, we begin to find ways to exchange these habits for ones that will help us develop. We can bring about the changes we are looking for.
To help you find your way around you will see blogs marked that relate to your own journey, to your relationships and to your workplace. You can also just browse around and see what catches your attention.
Now you have found us, feel free to comment, ask questions and share your own experience. A blog only really comes alive when its readers join in and take part.
How to Overcome your After-the-Holidays Blues?
Nearly everyone I know is back from their holiday now. There’s a big sign up in our street warning drivers that schools are open again and children will be crossing the road. Autumn is already nibbling around the edges, with a definite chill in the air. It’s certainly...
How to Find Ease with Stressful Work Situations
Photo by Suhyeon Choi on Unsplash We hear a lot about increasing levels of stress in the workplace. It seems that now almost 20% of workers in Europe say they experience stress in their job. I recently witnessed an incident with a flight attendant...
How to Keep a Good Meditation Routine this Holiday
Photo by Vicko Mozara on Unsplash Many of us in the northern hemisphere are heading off for our summer holidays about now. It’s a time of excitement and anticipation. The rest and relaxation you have been longing for is finally here. It’s been a busy...
Things To Keep In Mind Before You Quit Your Job
I am delighted to welcome back Bhavna Vaish with another guest blog. When people get into meditation, and a different way of approaching life, they often want to quit their job and work for themselves. Hey—it's what I did! Bhavna runs through some important practical...
How To Take Part in a Mindful Meeting
Meetings can be dynamic, creative events where plans get moved on and decisions made. They can also be boring, tedious and sometimes feel like a big waste of time. Whatever the case, many of us spend quite a lot of our time in one sort of meeting or another. That...
7 Ways to Benefit from Nature in the City
My partner and I have just got back from a short break in Drenthe, a province in the NE of the Netherlands. It’s a beautiful area and we got to spend lots of time in nature. We were both struck by how relaxed we were when we came home and how well we slept. It...
4 types of people I met during my time in a wheelchair
A while back I was having quite a bit of knee trouble and it was hard to get around. I fly a lot for my work and so I needed to rely on airport assistance for a couple of trips. Basically, you get put into a wheelchair, or on to a buggy and are zipped through...
Have You Ever Had Kindness Conquer All?
It must be one of the most dreaded moments in life—the moment when the worry that there is something wrong with your car turns into a certainty and you have to head for the hard shoulder of the motorway and search for the nearest emergency phone. The disaster It happened to us on our […]
What Gets in the Way of Your Meditation?
Meditation is quite easy to learn and it’s not hard to practice. What can be hard is to make it part of your life. Do you find that there is a lot of stuff that gets in the wayof your meditation? We are not used to meditating There is a lot of talk about how mindfulness […]
How Does Your Stress Help You Connect With Other People?
My niece is stressed at the moment because she has an end-of-year presentation for her PhD. My neighbour has been stressed for some time because she has a mysterious leak in her shower, which the plumber has so far been unable to fix. A colleague of mine is on extended sick leave due to high […]