Mindfully Holistic

Wellbeing Therapies +

Mindfulness


Health, Balance, Renewal, and Harmony

Mindfulness for You

Mindfulness, over recent times, has become a daily practice for many. The changes made to our daily lives throughout the Covid-19 pandemic has enabled us to re-evaluate our day to day living, with many adjustments having to be made. For a majority of individuals throughout this particular time we have perhaps had more time and been given an opportunity to become more aware of our thoughts and feelings. As we know from this experience learning to manage our responses to life's challenges can be difficult. Using the foundational aspects of mindfulness practice can help and support us in dealing with the many challenges, stresses and anxiety we may encounter along the way.


Just taking one small step each day and perhaps changing just one small aspect can help bring about many positive changes, helping ourselves to be more resilient to whatever challenge may come our way.

What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a technique or practice in which you purposefully focus your attention on what's happening in the present moment, and accepting it without judgement - observing one's thoughts and feelings without judging them as good or bad. By taking notice and being aware of your mind, body and surroundings, you focus on the present moment, taking yourself away from other thoughts.


Using the various techniques of mindfulness and bringing your attention to the present, you are able to:

  • Notice how thoughts come and go in your mind, and learn that they don't have to define your experience of the world, or who you are, and that you may let them go.
  • Notice what your body may be telling you - are you feeling anxiety or tension? Are your muscles tense is your breathing shallow?
  • Create a space between you and your thoughts, in which you can reflect on a situation and be able to react more calmly.


Mindfulness aims to help you:

  • feel calmer and less stressed
  • become more self-aware
  • cope with difficult or unhelpful thoughts
  • feel more able to choose how to respond to your feelings and thoughts
  • be kinder towards yourself


Research shows that mindfulness can have an incredibly positive impact on our lives and has been shown to reduce stress, anxiety and depression, improves focus, resilience, memory, and numerous health benefits including increased immune function and powerful anti-aging properties. Mindfulness has shown an increase in the concentration of grey matter in the parts of the brain associated with learning and memory, emotional regulation, and perspective taking, resulting in being calmer, less reactive, more mentally resilient, and less likely to fall into negative or unhelpful emotional patterns.

Benefits of Mindfulness

Physical

  • Improves our physical health - enables our bodies to be in a more natural, relaxed, and calm state, resulting in an overall effect on our health and wellbeing
  • Facilitation of recovery - can help deal with a chronic or potentially life-threatening event
  • Improves sleep - can help us relax, unwind, and calm our nervous system, resulting in a better night's rest
  • Enhanced ability to deal with illness - mindfulness may not take away symptoms, but it can help make them more manageable and also help to focus less on any pain, and helping improve quality of life (Garland & Howard, 2013)
  • Helps slow ageing - in easing negative and stressful feelings. Stress can have the side-effect of speeding up our biological clock, and mindfulness can potentially help slow it down


Mental
  • Increases focus
  • Helps us to be more mentally resilient
  • Improves communication
  • Reduces burnout and increases productivity
  • Reduces stress
  • Helps ease anxiety and depression - Mindfulness is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to prevent depression
  • Improves concentration
  • Improves cognitive ability
  • Can help reduce addictive and self-destructive behaviour


Emotional
  • Improves emotional intelligence
  • Helps us to feel calmer
  • Helps us have more fulfilling relationships - being calmer, less reactive and more emotionally available to listen to people, sharing quality time
  • Improves our ability to be non-judgmental and more objective
  • Enables more self-compassion - mindfulness is a central component of self-compassion. Those who are more self-compassionate tend to have more motivation, better health, and better relationships
  • Helps us feel happy and more fulfilled - practicing mindfulness has a positive impact on our happiness, wellbeing and sense of fulfillment

Mindfulness and meditation are inter-connected, but are not the same. Mindfulness is a quality; meditation is a practice.


Mindfulness is simply a method of mental training and the techniques have roots in Buddhism and meditation, but you don't have to be spiritual or religious, or have any particular beliefs to try it.


Mindfulness Now

Programme


The Mindfulness Now programme offers a synthesis of mindfulness based approaches including Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Developed in 1979 by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn, MBSR was a major breakthrough from psychological / medical models of treating anxiety and stress, being introduced to groups of patients with a range of both physical and psychological conditions, inclusive of pain, stress and anxiety. It has since been adapted for a wide variety of conditions including cancer, addictions and eating disorders.

MBCT builds upon the MBSR programme and offers and an evidence-based approach to helping individuals, particularly with depression. The aspects of MBCT helps individuals become aware of their thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations to then make adaptive changes/responses to signs of recurring conditions.

Flexible to meet the individual needs of a client, and designed as an 8 week programme, it may be taken as personalised, one-to-one sessions, or a weekly group mindfulness sessions, both incorporating meditation

Mindfulness Now 121 8 week programe

Being present by paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, emotions and sensations is very powerful and enables us to be able to break the negative thought patterns that we develop throughout our lives. These negative patterns can contribute, over time, to stress within the body that may lead to anxiety and depression.

Within the mindfulness 121 programme I try to ensure that each session is designed for your own personal needs, whilst incorporating the 7 attitudes, which are the foundation of mindfulness practice, along with mindful movement and mindful eating approaches, enabling you to harness your own personal meaning and practice. It is recommended, through research, that in order to gain most benefit from the mindfulness programme it is undertaken in 8 consecutive weeks if possible.

Your 121 personal Mindfulness Now programme includes:

  • 8 x 90 minute individual, personalised mindfulness and meditation sessions, with open-ended support
  • Exploration of the 7 foundational attitudes
  • Formal mindful meditations (individual dedicated audio recordings for your own home use and practice)
  • Informal mindfulness practices including mindful movement and mindful eating and journaling

Format for the above is either face-to-face or Zoom

Investment: Please contact for more information

Group Mindfulness 8 week programme includes:

  • 8 x 90 minute formal mindfulness and meditation sessions
  • Exploration of the 7 foundational attitudes
  • Formal mindful meditations (audio recordings for home use and practice)
  • Informal mindfulness practices including mindful movement, eating and journaling

Format for the above is online via Zoom

Investment: Please contact for more information

Get in Touch

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about any of the wellbeing therapies and services I offer, or if you would like to arrange a Discovery Session or an initial consultation.

You can also call me on 07763 185413 if you would like to speak to me first or if you would prefer to leave me a message.

judith@mindfullyholistic.co.uk

Appointments

Online consultation via Zoom for:

Spiritual Life Coaching/ Intuitive Coaching & Mentoring

Dowsing for Health

Women's Health

Mindfulness

Discovery Session - 30 minute session (online or phone call) to discuss your needs and discover what may work best for you.

Please give at least 48 hours notice of an appointment cancellation or full cost of a treatment may be charged.

Payments can be made by card, or bank transfer.

If you have a private health plan you may be able to claim for your reflexology treatment - please check your policy for details.

Spiritual/Intuitive Coaching & Mentoring

121 Session (1hr) £48

121 Session (90 mins) £58

Dowsing for Health

In-depth health/nutrition check £45 - £60

Nutritional/Supplement analysis £45

Energy balance and health check £45

Home and environment check & balance £45

Women's Health

Consultation session £45

Reflexology

Initial treatment consultation (1hr 15m) £45

Follow-up appointment £40

Reflexology Home Visit (1hr) £45

Disclaimer

Please note that in the course of a treatment

no attempt is made to diagnose or replace your doctor.

Location

Situated in rural Leicestershire.

Home visits are available for reflexology clients.