Grounding and Mindfulness

Grounding and Mindfulness

Self Regulation

What’s the Link Between Grounding and Mindfulness? Last time I shared some information about 9 specific qualities that have been shown scientifically to be enhanced by mindfulness practice. Here they are again: 1. Emotional Balance 2. The ability to pause before you...
Letting Go

Letting Go

Self Regulation

As humans, when we set ourselves a new goal, we generally begin that journey with great enthusiasm. Over time the enthusiasm can begin to wane, and in many cases after a month or two the goal seems nothing more than a distant memory that became too hard or...
How Do You Do Anger?

How Do You Do Anger?

Self Regulation

What’s your relationship to anger? Is it something to avoid? Discourage? Suppress? For most of us, anger has not traditionally been met with a whole lot of empathy. As children, our anger may well have been painful for our parents or those around us, and as a result,...

Body Focusing

Self Regulation

Body Focussing is an excellent way to begin tapping into the unique intelligence that our bodies hold. Our Body is like the ultimate biofeedback device, if we learn to listen to it. As we feel into the wisdom of our Body, we can notice how we are feeling at any given...

Feelings and Needs

Self Regulation

An interesting study, by UCLA’s Matthew Lieberman (Matthew Lieberman et al., “Putting Feelings into Words: Affect Labelling Disrupts Amygdala Activity in Response to Affective Stimuli”, 2007), found that decreased activation of the amygdala occurs when feelings are...