Our modern-day world leads us to juggle many demands and multi-tasking and this can make our minds race around at incredible speed. Mindfulness is a way of slowing us down and paying attention to whatever is happening in our lives, inside and out, in our internal (thoughts and feelings) and in our external world. It’s a practice involving paying attention to what is happening- as it’s happening.

It’s about coming off the auto-pilot and training ourselves to pay close attention to what is going on right now, in the present moment. When we spend a lot of our time lost in thought, lost in our internal world, our stress levels can increase, as well as many of our difficult feelings and emotions. This kicks in our flight and fight mode and when we are constantly in this mode it changes our emotional wellness. When we are mindful, we become more aware of this and can explore our habitual thought patterns and ways of reacting and begin to promote our wellbeing.