The Mindful Minute

Take 5 minutes to yourself at some stage today to reset and relax with 5 second triangular breathing :)

This is a 20 minute mindfulness exercise to help you to cope with Covid-19 Lockdown. Focusing on using the breath and body as anchors to come into the present, cultivating gratitude for the world, and showing love to yourself. You deserve to be loved, you deserve to be happy, you deserve to be at peace. Namaste.

If you are feeling anxious or overwhelmed then firstly know that you are going to be OK and that what you are experiencing is completely normal. Secondly, take five minutes in a comfortable space and try this meditation. It is specifically designed to calm you in a moment of overwhelm. 

If you would like your children to start some mindfulness, ballon breathing is a brilliant exercise to start with. Using fun imagery, this allows your child’s to slow down, breathe mindfully and use the power of their imagination.

In this 10-minute exercise, we look to explore the difficult thoughts and emotions that can come up for us from time to time, and see how they effect our body and our mind. Over time, this connection, exploration and awareness, can quieten our minds, and reduce the discomfort associated with certain thoughts.

This meditation helps to us to be aware of our thoughts without getting caught up in them, by comparing them to the sounds that come and go around us.

Wake up or wind down with some mindful stretching at some point this week. Easy to follow and relaxing to do. Take 15 minutes and look after yourself :)

A short and simple 5 minute breathing exercise to help relieve some tension in your shoulders and bring you into the present moment with structured box breathing. Enjoy :)

Being busy is one of the backbones of Irish Culture. If we aren’t on the go, be it with work, study, sport or socializing, then we are doing something wrong. Amongst all of our busy-ness, it is easy to fall into a state of automatic pilot where our senses fall into the background and we have full focus on the task at hand. The 5-4-3-2-1 relaxation exercise is a way to bring us back into the presen...

Much of the anxiety and stress that we experience can be felt in our bodies. After a stressful week we can come home with tension all over, be it our shoulders, our neck, our jaw or our forehead. The Tense and Release exercise is a great way to remove some of that tension and can help relax you during the day or even in bed before trying to sleep.

A nice and relaxing ten minute seated meditation that you can try at home :)

This meditation is a short and simple exercise that helps to build compassion for yourself, your loved ones and the world around you.