Free Weekly Mindfulness Workout

• Creative Mindfulness Tuesday evenings in Tawa.
• Tawa All Good Colourers every last Sunday of the month.
• Learn to crochet, 4 weeks, starts 1 November on the Wednesday evening.

My Wednesday evening “learn to crochet for calmness” class finished last Wednesday and I’m super proud of my students!! I’m also super grateful for the awesome feedback they gave me on the course 💜 Thank you!!!

We had a great morning full of colouring and zendoodle yesterday in the Tawa Community Centre and lots of people came to chill and chat!!

FREE WORKOUT STARTS HERE:

If you want to start practicing mindfulness, so you feel better, are more relaxed and worry less, you have to make it easy for yourself. And the easiest way is to take an activity that you are doing already, and make that a mindfulness exercise. So doing what you are doing anyway, just now doing it mindfully.

This can be brushing your teeth, rinsing your shampoo, emptying the dishwasher, having your morning cuppa, walking home from the station, or hanging the laundry outside. The last one is my favorite!!

Make it mindful by bringing your full attention to your senses in the here and now. What can you see, feel, hear, touch, smell right here, right now while you are doing what you are doing. Doestn’t have to take more than a few minutes!!

You will notice you get easily distracted by anything that pops up in your mind, and that doesn’t matter at all. Actually, that is super normal to happen!

Just notice you get distracted, and kindly bring your attention back to the activity you were doing mindfully.

Go on, try it this week!

Have a great week!

M

Healthy Mind, Happy Heart

Free Weekly Mindfulness Workout and upcoming classes.

Tuesday is Creative Mindfulness, come if you can, learn mindfulness AND work on your creative projects. We have crocheters (of course), knitters, colourers etc.

Thursday we are making jingle balls for Little Sprouts, come if you can crochet and bring your hook and any materials you might have. I can send you a pattern if you like too!

Sunday we are colouring again at the Tawa community centre, 10-12!!

Wow Monday again! Are you here for the weekly workout? Let me know and hit the like button!

 

Learn to crochet is already in the last week, and I loved every lesson so much!! Lucky to be teaching this again in November!! Sign up at tawacomed website, it was fully booked very quickly last time.

 

Creative Mindfulness is Tuesday evening, all welcome to attend!

 

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If you practice being mindful, you will also become more aware of what is going on in your mind. As your mind will distract you from being mindful all the time! (Which is totally normal!)

 

This week try to notice your thoughts and see if there are any negative thoughts. And here’s the workout: try to reframe them into a more positive thought. For example: I can never do this. You could change that into I cannot do it yet.

This can help in being more realistic and feel better!

 

Have a great week,

M

🌷Healthy Mind, Happy Heart

Free Weekly Mindfulness and upcoming classes.

Good morning and welcome to another week, and another little mindfulness workout!

Tomorrow CREATIVE MINDFULNESS starts, 7.30-9pm in Tawa, let me know if you want to join to learn and practice mindfulness AND work on your creative projects in a friendly and down to earth class.

Crocheters, knitters, colourers etc all welcome!!

 

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Mindfulness is training your attention to be in the here and now, with an open and curious attitude, non judging of what is here.

Often we get stressed, by situations, by ourselves, by others. Mindfulness will not make stress never happen again, but it can help in managing stress, by doing just that: notice you get stressed!!

We can rage for some time, before we even notice what is actually going on with us. So that first step is the most important: notice that you are stressing out, looking at yourself.

Than be mindful of where in your body you feel stress, and just observe that. I find you are all clever people and usually once you learn to recognise the moment you are stressing out, and bringing your attention to your body, your feelings and what is going on in your mind, will give you a lightbulb moment as to what is going to be your next step. You can do this!

 

So no running away from stress, not beating yourself up about being stressed, just becoming aware of it is the way to move onwards. By practicing this, you will notice when you are being stressed much sooner, or you might even notice you are about to get stressed, and that is just great!!

 

Try it for a week and let me know if this is helpful,

have a great week,

M

🌷Healthy Mind, Happy Heart

ps Crocheting for calmness is so succesful, we are already taking bookings for next term!!

Here’s what people showed the second week at crochet class:

Free Weekly Mindfulness and Upcoming classes

Tuesday 15 August: 6 week Creative Mindfulness in Tawa, 7.30-9pm.

Next week Creative Mindfulness starts on Tuesday, join us if you want to practice some mindfulness and want to have time to work on your creative projects!!

“My” crocheters come to this class, we have a mum and daughter, a few knitters, and we welcome colourers etc too!!

Sunday 27 August Tawa All Good Colourers at the Tawa Community Centre.

 Email monique@easynowmindfulness.com to register.

 

 

This week I have a zendoodle challenge for you. No need to be artistic or have an arts degree, everybody can do this, just follow these 8 steps!

So here we go:

 

1. Grab a pencil, a black sharpie/fineliner, paper and a round or square template. I used a glass to make a circle, you can also use square coaster or whatever you can find.

 

2. Use your pencil to go round your template to make a circle or square.

 

3. With your pencil draw 2 lines right through your template, to create 4 empty spaces. Any 4 spaces are fine!

 

3. Get your black sharpie and fill one space with this pattern:

https://buff.ly/2uv8Au4. Do you notice how I made a mistake here??  I decided not to be bothered by that 🙂

 

4. Fill another space with this pattern:

http://beezinthebelfry.blogspot.co.nz/2013/08/tangle-card-challenge-5-hemp-and-6.html.

 

5. Fill another space with this pattern:

http://www.amarylliscreations.com/zentangleharmony/2010/10/new-tangle-carres/.

6. Fill a space with this pattern:

http://beezinthebelfry.blogspot.co.nz/2009/10/tangle-of-week-man-o-man.html

 

7. If you have any remaining spaces, you can fill this with circles of all different sizes and colour black around them.

 

8. Finished, or you can colour your zendoodle if you like. What ever you do, it will look stunning!!

 

Post your zendoodle to my page or in the comments as I will love to see how yours turned out!!!

 

Have a great week,

M

 

🌷 Healthy Mind, Happy Heart