The Mindful Baker

In my journey through life, I've come to realize the immense power of offering sincere congratulations to those around me. It's not just...

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

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...

Before you can completely regain a 'childlike' love for yourself, the table has to be clean, so to speak. If you are harbouring...

For as long as you fail to love and accept yourself, you will judge that you are not beautiful enough, successful enough, rich enough,...

Contrary to popular belief, most people who suffer from addictions, of any sort, actually recover by themselves without the need for any...

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

A battle is going on inside us all, it is a terrible fight between wolves. One is evil; anger, envy, sorrow, shame, regret, greed,...

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

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,...

Pre mindfulness, what annoyed and upset my family the most, was my dislike of animals – cats, in particular. I know that a lot of people...

As humans, there are two states of mind that we can inhabit: the ‘doing’ mode and/or the ‘being’ mode. But which are you and which is...

We’ve all been let down at some point or another in our lives, be that through an individual’s failure to carry out a promised task or a...

So you're stressed and you want some relief, which shouldn't be too hard an ask, should it? One of the most googled search terms around...