Mindfulness Practice

To all intents and purposes, mindfulness practice underlies all aspects of my professional practice. As a principle mode of my own personal development for over twenty five years, my daily meditation practice must surely inform and enhance my awareness in daily life! Well I hope and believe so – and I hope and believe likewise for those clients with whom I sense it is appropriate to share mindfulness practice techniques.

Simply put, the more aware we can become of those unconscious behavioural patterns which keep us stuck – the more ‘conscious’ they become – the more choice we have to respond in fresh and creative ways to those ‘trigger circumstances’ to which we used to react automatically.

Practice materials (guided meditations and experiential exercises) can be downloaded from here

Please download ’sparingly’ ! Try out one before downloading another (on another day perhaps – I have a very small daily download quota which will easily be exceeded with multiple downloads – the site will then be shut down) Thanks for your consideration.

And here are a couple of really useful links to follow:

The ‘Be mindful’ campaign – some great resources and compelling evidence to lend to the argument that mindfulness based approaches should be more commonly recommended by GP’s:
http://www.bemindful.co.uk/

A more general resource centre of information about mindfulness as an approach to well-being:
http://www.mindfulnet.org/

And the Bangor Institute for Mindfulness, the leading UK organisation for academic inquiry into mindfulness.
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/mindfulness/

2 Responses to “Mindfulness Practice”

  1. Christine Kane, on November 28th, 2009 at 3:02 pm Said:

    Hi Martin

    We met briefly after the Mindfulness Conference @ UEL and I asked you if you would be willing to participate in my MSc Coaching Psychology dissertation which is a qualitative study of the use of mindfulness in coaching practice, and this email is really just to formally request that you might agree to participate in my study of coaching practioners and how mindfulness is used in different ways by different practitioners.

    I am currently completing this semester’s assignments, which are, as you will appreciate, extremely time consuming, so I hope to have time after 15th December to distill my project and to provide you with the substance of the project for your consideration.

    If you could respond to my email address, this would be much appreciated.

    Many Thanks

    Christine Kane

  2. martin.wilks, on November 28th, 2009 at 9:54 pm Said:

    Hiya Christine,
    Yes, that’s fine – I look forward to hearing the outlines of your study
    all the best
    Martin