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One minute wellbeing with Dr Justin Coulson

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One minute wellbeing with Dr Justin Coulson

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Resilience from the inside out

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12 Mini Mindfulness exercises for kids.

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ways to invest in your own mental health

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ways to invest in your own mental health

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This link has information about wellbeing and meditation.

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Mindfulness and meditation - Black Dog Institute

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Mindfulness is good for your health, happiness and wellbeing. Research shows mindfulness can even have a positive effect on our brain function.

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The Spoke – Early Childhood Australia's Blog

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To take care of others you need to first take care of yourself.

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Yoga Nidra Singing Bowls | Sound bath for total calm & deep meditation

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This is an activity you and a team member could commit to doing together. Download and photocopy the two pages double sided. Give yourself a week to fill out the sections... share with your colleague if you choose to.

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Headspace | Mini Meditation | Let Go of Stress

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Trying to tame our racing thoughts can feel like trying to tame a pack of wild horses. In this guided meditation, Headspace Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher Dora Kamau will teach us how to gently bring our racing minds back to the present with self-compassion. With a calming narration and grounding visualization, we’ll come to understand that we cannot force the mind to stop racing, but we can gently guide it to become more tame, calm, and learn to enjoy moments of stillness.

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Grounding Exercise for Racing Minds: Calming Meditation with Dora Kamau

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This short meditation can teach you how to notice what you’re holding on to and how to drop the preoccupying storyline, allowing you to reframe stressful situations. Nothing can ever change the circumstances, but a shift in perspective can transform the experience of stress. This exercise is largely focused on accepting what is happening to your mindset, and developing an awareness that helps us to let go of negative emotions.

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When negative energy from stress steals our focus, it can be degenerative to our mental health. Stress can contribute to causing and exacerbating conditions such as anxiety, depression, OCD, inflammation, and more. Marcos Economides, a cognitive neuroscientist, explains that when stress goes untreated, "It can lead to headaches, weight gain, muscle tension, sleep problems, reduction in sex drive, and a lot more."

We live in a culture where many of us receive notifications and alerts from our mobile phones multiple times an hour (if not every minute!). The majority of the time these alerts are not positively affecting our mental health, as it can seem like there is always someone or something pulling our attention away from being mindful and present.

Stress doesn't always stem from the outer world, and more often than not it actually begins within our own minds. Consider a sports competition, for example, where a buildup of eagerness and pressure to succeed can take complete control over our mental state. Too much stress and strain can lead to burnout and failure. Instead of obsessing over the outcome, visualize success and befriend healthy anxiety. As Dr. Jenn Bennett explains, "our central nervous system doesn't recognize the difference between imagined success and reality, so visualization can be a useful skill to develop." Practicing a calming meditation can provide a foundation for an effective imagery experience, which is one of the most powerful tools to overcome stress.

As with most things in life, the real power comes from our reaction to situations. How can we take control of a stressful moment and deal with it in a way that doesn't result in a downward spiral, affecting the rest of our day? Calming guided meditations can help ensure our minds are prepared to respond from a place of calm and mindfulness.

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From traffic and technology to work and relationships, there is a never-ending list of stressors that bombard most of us on a daily basis. A calming meditation can be incredibly helpful to bring us to a more peaceful state of mind.

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Be You Planning for Wellbeing- mine yours ours