The Mindful Baker

The general idea of meditation is to harness the ability to clear your mind of the everyday thoughts that constantly pester us, by...

I want to talk to you about something that I’m very passionate about: setting and achieving goals using mindfulness and positive...

Loneliness encompasses the sensation of isolation, disconnection, or a sense of being unvalued by others. This sentiment can arise in...

Not that any of you are nay sayers but I often find that mindfulness is sometimes perceived as a religion doctrine, of sorts, rather than...

Alongside the Be Happy book that I mentioned in an earlier blog, Robert Holden runs an eight week happiness course, designed to teach...

Defining happiness falls into three different categories, the third of which is often seen as the most important, because it doesn’t...

Laughter is the Best Medicine ♫ There is another side to happiness, which is unbelievable to everyone who lacks faith in its true power:...

On the meditation weekend which provided me with a lot of content for these bogs, most of the people who came by themselves were given...

As I mentioned in my last blog, it is only once we grow apart from the innocence of childhood that we slowly start to disengage with...

A couple of years ago, I attended a weekend meditation retreat at a stately home in Oxfordshire. I learned several things over the...

Spirituality is more or less always chosen, whereas religion is often, but not always, forced upon the passive. There is a plethora of...

Prayer and meditation are intrinsically linked. Let’s put William, a devout Christian, and Oliver, a mindful meditator, in the same room...

When I was about thirteen – an impressionable age – my God-mother, for whom I have an unending amount of admiration and love gave me the...

Although spirituality stems from the ideologies of many religions (Buddhism being a dominant influence) its presence within us supersedes...

Following on from the last few blogs giving you techniques and methods to integrate mindfulness and meditation into your life (just click...

1. The body scan: For beginners, this is a great starting point for experiencing the immediate sensations, throughout your whole body, of...

Settle yourself comfortably in a quiet space and then open your eyes and concentrate on a visual stimulus. This could be anything – a...

Mindfulness for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide to Meditating and Finding Inner Peace

Are you tired of feeling stressed and anxious all the time? Do you wish you could find a way to quiet your mind and just relax? Well, my...

Being in the driving seat of a car used to transform me into a complete control freak. The roads were mine and if anybody got in my way,...