While I practice mindfulness on a daily basis, the month of May has become synonymous with mindfulness… Mindful in May was started by Elise Bialylew, an Australian doctor trained in psychiatry… It’s now the world’s largest online mindfulness fundraising campaign. So although you can practice mindfulness anywhere, at any time, if you haven’t tried it […]
I don’t know about you, but I love good theatre and shows… And I’ve been really lucky lately to see some exceptional performances. Last week my husband and I saw Jeff Goldblum (the actor) as a jazz musician. Not acting as a musician, actually being a jazz pianist and singer. Initially we weren’t quite sure
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It’s probably no surprise that we talk about breathing quite a lot in our meditation classes. We use our breath to help bring our attention inwards. To help us find a sense of calm… Help us relax… Steer us away from the ‘fight or flight’ mode… And into our parasympathetic nervous system… or ‘rest and
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ABC Queensland’s Evening show has just started a new project… A 100 Day Project. The idea being: You commit yourself to 100 days of doing something that brings you joy, or taps into your creative self. So I’ve being giving it some thought as to what I could do… It seemed a bit of a
A couple of hours after I posted last week’s blog about forests’ symbiotic relationships… We arrived at the Truffle Discovery Centre, just north of Stanthorpe. After a fascinating talk and sublime tasting session… we were reading more information boards when I came across exactly the same concept… Truffles are the edible fruiting bodies of mycorrhiza
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A friend recently shared an article about Suzanne Simard, a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. Simard, as part of her doctorate thesis, demonstrated that some trees, which often grow together in the wild, trade nutrients. Essentially her research challenged the notion that scientists have traditionally held, that forests
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I discovered yet another new word this week… Skychology! Yes, it really is a ‘thing’. It’s the practice of intentionally looking up at the sky for a few minutes each day, to improve mental health. The phrase was first coined by phsychologist and wellbeing coach, Paul Conway, in his 2019 study: Skychology – an interpretative
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I love how nature can be completely bonkers! Some time ago Michael and I were out and about in the car when we saw some Sulphur-crested Cockatoos in distress. It seemed they’d got tangled up in some cables hanging over the road. They were dangling from their feet, flapping their wings furiously and making one
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Dr Astha Tomar is a psychiatrist who surprisingly says meditation doesn’t work for her… Well that’s how the story was billed… And it’s more surprising because Dr Tomar is President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. So surely she should meditate? My husband flicked me the article last week (which I
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My phone has died… Well the battery anyway. I’d noticed it lifting out of its case slightly, but never really thought anymore about it. Then my husband noticed it and said we should get it checked out. So finally on Saturday, when we were in a local shopping centre, we stopped at a mobile phone
