In life we can experience moments of “feeling stuck”, experiencing each day as “the same old thing” or being “on the hamster wheel”, “never having enough time”

Mindfulness will not offer you a magic wand experience! It will however teach you the tools to navigate difficult thoughts & emotions when they arise in our lives. Allowing space to attend to your individual thoughts in a clear logical & more compassionate way. We can learn to understand ourselves more fully, mind & body.

In Mindfulness the goal is not to stop the mind from thinking or make our thoughts magically disappear. We learn how to focus our attention on physical body sensations, emotions & thoughts. We can then allow ourselves to see them more clearly without judgments and with Kindness.

Through Neuroscience you will learn how your brain works and responds in various situations, stress, anxiety, memories, thinking, learning. Our brain has capacity to physically change every day. When we are able to understand the changes within our own individual brains we can then explore changes we can introduce to our thinking patterns to promote our own positive mindset.

Positive Psychology is the doorway to increasing your own personal happiness. The study of Positive Psychology explores what makes happy people happy! We can learn to incorporate these tools into our own lives to improve our happiness & wellbeing.
Martin Selligman (know as the founding father of Positive Psychology) describes this discipline as:

In Mayo Mindfulness I offer a unique combination of mindfulness, meditation & Positive Psychology. The courses & workshops are evidence based drawing on the latest scientific research in Mindfulness & Neuroscience, combining elements of MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress reduction) & MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy) as well as Positive Psychology & neuroscience. I offer a practical approach, enabling each individual to combine elements they can integrate into their unique lives. Mindfulness is not “one size fits all”; it allows for its core principles to become part of your day.

I offer to you both formal & Informal Mindfulness. Formal Mindfulness guides you in meditations on breathing, mind & body, walking meditation, loving kindness, lake & mountain meditation, expanded awareness, engaging our senses from our inner and the outer world.

Informal Mindfulness teaches you how Mindfulness practices can be incorporated in what remains from your 24hr day.

Meditation is like bringing your mind to the gym! Strenghtening your awareness. This increased strength can enable you to become more self-aware & recognise unhelpful thought & behaviour patterns.

Each individual has their own personal life experience & reason for incorporating Mindfulness into their lives. Mayo Mindfulness will guide you on a path to effortlessly integrate Mindfulness in a way that gently inhabits your unique mind & body.

Some of the many areas include:

• Growing healthy & positive attitudes
• Understanding stress & anxiety.
• Recognising unhelpful thinking patterns.
• Nurture motivation.
• Increase personal happiness.
• Tips for Mindful living.
• Stepping away from overthinking & mental chatter.
• Decreasing physical symptoms of stress & anxiety. We all have an innate kind, loving, authentic self. As you learn to gently fold back layers of unhelpful thought you can facilitate the mind to connect with this deeper self. This can empower you to utilise your own energies to embrace your life.

Our mental and physical health are intrinsically linked. Until recent years our mental health was only addressed when it reached a point needing professional intervention. We are now very aware of the importance of investing in our mental health as we do our physical health. The World Health Organisation have described mental health: