Mindfully

18/07/2025

Mindfulness and Meditation are experiential actions not rational processes. They are hands on and practical. Only can only understand and appreciate them through living them, like summer fruit can only be enjoyed through the act of eating.

This was my aim today - to make the aliveness of mindfulness an experiential process. I enjoyed delivering the session and leading the meditation, but the joyous energy my seashell activity generated in the group was something else.

Laughter, giggles, excited screeches... Adult women taken back to childhood exuberance. An immersion in the moment, meeting life directly through the senses with an immediacy powered by joyful awareness.

They all left smiling, they all left reflecting about the ways they meet life this way already. They all remembered that play and curiosity, time away from the norm, and time for the self are powerful acts of self care.

Thank you Hospice Malta for introducing Mindfulness and Meditation to your valued volunteers.

04/06/2025

Current research shows that trauma is much more widespread than we think. While not all trauma leads to PTSD, both what is call trauma with a small -t and Trauma with a capital -T are very real, and lead to many consequences of a physical, emotional and/ or psychological nature.

Trauma doesn't always look like horrific accidents, war, blood and gore. It can also look like neglect, abuse, grief and disappointments.

Healing from trauma is possible and growing enough to accommodate that which has hurt you can be a beautiful and is definitely a very empowering process. If you have experienced trauma, you don't need to suffer alone. Seek the help you need. And don't give up if the first (second or third) therapist you try aren't the right fit. Keep looking until you find someone who can help you from a place of compassion!

Authors you may wish to follow on the subject:

Bessel der Kolk
Gabor Mate
Peter Levin

28/08/2024

25/08/2024

A lovely meditation on the swaying of ficus branches in the cool breeze. Mindfulness of breath alongside the soothing play of green against blue. Spaciousness of feeling, of being, a lulling of the soul.

16/08/2024

Gut is the body's second brain. So much of our un/happiness, in/stability, and emotional and psychological wellness depends on having a healthy gut with a whole host of healthy bacteria.

10/08/2024

Good morning, beautiful souls 🙏🌞

Beautiful Sarah Borg, my dear friend, shared this with me.

May we all be blessed with remembering that treasures come our way in the smallest of things.

Have a blessed weekend!

08/08/2024

'Healing the wound is followed by a joyful life'.
- Boyd Varty

Boyd Varty has spent his entire life exploring and understanding wild places. Through the ancient art of tracking animals - he has learned to build a system that…

08/08/2024

Cats are masters of mindfulness.

Happy International Cats Day!

07/08/2024

This is the way you slip through in your innermost home:
Close your eyes, and surrender.

-Rumi

07/08/2024

“The achievement of psychological maturity is an individual task-and so is increasingly difficult today when man's individuality is threatened by widespread conformity.”
C.G. Jung

I find this quote, shared with me this morning by Rudi JJ, to be so true. Not only psychological maturity is increasingly difficult but also healing, of a psychological or a physical nature both. All healing takes autonomy and ownership, an active participation in the process.

But if you look at our society today, these rights of ownership in one's own process of healing have practically been wrestled away from the individual by our medical processes and system.

Most of the time, the patient cannot express opinions, doesn't have the space for questions and conversations, they must take the pills and be subjugated to an external force working on them rather than with them.

Growing into our own self, taking an autonomous interest in the processes taking place within is, takes us to a more wholesome and holistic way of emotional, psychological and physical health. My grandma always said we must be our own doctor. As a child I did not understand this. As I grow older, I grow into more of her wisdoms, too.

06/08/2024

I was listening to a podcast on Sunday and a concept that was brought up struck me.

In societies where upon hitting puberty, adolescents go through an initiation task or ritual in order to grow into their next life, it is not only the youth who goes through this rite of passage but also the mother. The mother also, through ritual, brings an end to a part of her life and ushers in the next phase, during which her role is altered and she needs to cultivate and foster other skills.

Food for thought.

Art: Deborah J. Sie