by Cherise Vallet | Sep 14, 2021 | Liberation, Mindfulness, Mindfulness training, Self-awareness
“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”— Zen proverb I love a good food analogy, so here goes. While you may find your mind is often like Forrest Gump’s proverbial box of chocolates, the process of Mindfulness Meditation is more like a layer cake. Full of...
by Cherise Vallet | Jul 28, 2021 | MBSR Online, Mindfulness, Mindfulness training, Self-awareness
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” —Henry David Thoreau It’s the middle of our SA lockdown, and I’ve got extra energy to burn. So I wash the windows, inside and out. I have a lot of windows,...
by Cherise Vallet | Jul 27, 2021 | MBSR Online, Mindfulness, Self-awareness
I recently read a very thought-provoking article by Shannon Harvey, author of “My Year of Living Mindfully”, about the current ‘epidemic of mental illness’. It’s well worth a read, mainly for the insight that a lot of what we are starting to describe as ‘illness’ is...
by Cherise Vallet | Jul 25, 2021 | MBSR Online, Mindfulness, Self-awareness
A couple of weeks ago I was delivering a presentation on Mindfulness and Its Benefits to a corporate group. At the end of the presentation, as participants came up to me with thanks and many positive comments, I suddenly realised I’d forgotten an important point...
by Cherise Vallet | May 25, 2020 | Mindfulness, Mindfulness training, Self-awareness
A couple of years ago I read Scott Pape’s Barefoot Investor, which is a wonderfully accessible and highly entertaining book on working intelligently and creatively with your money. One thing Scott has emphasised, especially for his younger readers, is the value of...
