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Mindfulness for Marathons?

November 5, 2018 By Shakya Kumara

A few weeks after completing an 8 week Resilient Mindfulness course, Matthew emailed me to say he’d just run a half marathon, and achieved a personal best (1 hour 21, exactly a minute off his previous PB).  What’s remarkable about that?  He’d done no focussed training! He found that “amazing, and hard to explain.” So what was […]

Ann’s Perfect Storm of Change – and how Mindfulness Helped

April 3, 2017 By Shakya Kumara

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One of my readers, let’s call her Ann, emailed me about her “perfect storm of change.” She wrote about changes at work: regular messages on the intranet announcing “more change, more people losing their jobs, more of the surviving jobs being made unmanageable, more service being eroded, more things I value being destroyed ….” She wrote about […]

Mindfulness Makes You Stronger

February 2, 2017 By Shakya Kumara

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There’s a popular image of Mindfulness, that it’s about retreating inside yourself, quietening down and generally being rather feeble. But I disagree. So do the US Marines – their Mindfulness-based Mental Fitness Training programmes achieve excellent results. Many organisations disagree too.  Google, eBay, EY, HSBC, the UK Parliament, the UK National Health Service, Unilever, KPMG, Microsoft, Bupa, […]

Like Mindfulness but can’t find the time?

September 1, 2016 By Shakya Kumara

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Mindfulness has tremendous benefits: it reduces stress while increasing clarity of mind, enjoyment, effectiveness and many other benefits. But it does take time. This article is for you if you’d love to practice Mindfulness, but simply can’t find the time. What’s the quickest way to practice Mindfulness?

How Mindfulness Boosts Resilience

March 4, 2016 By Shakya Kumara

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Faced with pressure, challenge and change, people’s stress response can easily kick in, making them rigid, inflexible and irritable. Sustained over time, the result is anxiety, depression and burnout. This is a growing issue for us in the modern world: in the UK, for example, more than 50% of sick-days are now due to such illnesses. […]

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