Explore the power of mindfulness for finding balance and happiness amidst life's busy and stressful schedules. Discover how small differences, both in our bodies and minds, can hold valuable insights and affect the bigger picture. Through awareness and acceptance, we can adapt, adjust, and make conscious choices to create amazing transformations. Let's journey together towards progress, not perfection, as we explore mindfulness in action....
Some people think that positive affirmations are totally bogus and a waste of time. I say, it all depends on the circumstances and how you use them. If you struggle with decision making and lack confidence, mindfulness, positive self-talk, and guided meditation can be powerful tools to help you gain clarity and focus. But you have to set yourself up for success. A simple positive quote hanging on your wall just isn't going to cut it. If you...
Mindful Actions got a complete overhaul last week and I am absolutely in love with the new look. I hope this new format will make it easier for you to find podcast and blog posts more easily. The goal is that specific topics and issues will be more searchable. Know that whatever you're dealing with in different seasons of life, there is a mindfulness tactic that can help. The goal of Mindful Actions is to help you with stress management, not...
It's time to rest and relax. We are just going to sit and be today. Nice and simple. Be here, be present, be accepting, be you. One thing I like to remind people is that you can still practice mindfulness and be stressed. You can still meditate and be overwhelmed. That’s WHY we practice these things! They help us cope. They don’t make us perfectly calm and peaceful people. They help alleviate the stress symptoms, but they’ll never fully...
I've been reading a lot of books and research recently about the truth and science behind mindfulness, because I'm not here just to gaslight you into believing that everyone can be happy by making a few habit changes. No, I am here to break it down for you, show you the realities of finding your way through mindfulness and meditation, and to help you learn from the varying moments in your life to create real, long-lasting growth. And that...
So, I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel like practicing gratitude can get pretty repetitive and boring. Especially if you practice it daily, like is suggested. It just gets annoying after a while. Well, I'm excited for this post to work through breaking down one of the biggest barriers to practicing gratitude. This blog post is a transcript of the podcast episode if you would like to read along, or go ahead and click play below...
Update: my gut feeling was right! This post is in response to my post earlier this week on How To Trust Your Instincts. I'm adding this to the story because I just can't not celebrate the accuracy of my intuition here! Celebrate yourself, that's one of the pillars Mindful Actions is built on to help embrace confidence. In the beginning of the last post I wrote that I just had a feeling that it was going to be a good day. I wrote that in the...
I've been in a bit of a slump recently, possibly even spanning over a couple of weeks. I'm not really sure when it all started, I just know that I really started to feel it this week. I've been feeling a bit lost and confused and down on myself. In particular with my body image and self acceptance. Listen to this blog post on the podcast below or keep reading! Before I sat down to write this, I did 2 self-love meditations to try and tune in to...
Sat Nam is one of the most basic beginner transcendental meditations, also known as mantra meditation, and I thought it would be a good place for us to start with our first meditation together of this kind. Today we are going to repeat this phrase aloud, many times, to engage both the body and the mind for stress relief and focus. The beauty in this meditation is that it helps you disconnect from from your worries, allowing you to reconnect...
Listen to the podcast or read the transcript below. Let’s talk about one of the parts of meditation and mindfulness today that can often be really hard. The thing that makes us sometimes feel like we are totally failing at it. We are going to talk about focus today, but probably not in the way you’re expecting me to talk about it. We are going to talk about what you’re actually doing when you are focused. We are going to practice doing,...
Question for you, did you read and process this title? I'll give you another second to think about it, and if you want to listen to this short podcast episode, or at least the meditation portion, instead of reading the meditation script here, go for it! How Words & Mindset Matter So, I'm guessing you may have read it to simply know what the topic was going to be about, but you probably didn't think too much in depth about it, which totally...
I saw a quote the other day on my box of Earl Grey tea, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. It said "sometimes the grey area is the most interesting". Let's stop for just a moment and let you think about what that means to you. "Sometimes they grey area is the most interesting". This simple quote got me thinking on so many different levels. So let's start to unpack it. Listen to the podcast episode, or read through the script...
