This is a true story about one woman who used mindfulness to overcome crippling anxiety. After some months of being unable to leave the house, having sold car and given up hope of being able to drive again, she turned her life around using mindfulness and meditation.
Read moreHow to change what you need to change, with Mindfulness. Learn how to focus on work at work and how to switch off at night
Take a few moments out to think about what you would like to change and how you are going to do it. Many people are telling me that working from home has meant that they feel less able to switch off from work in the evenings and at night.
Mindfulness and meditation can be immediately useful for this. Both mindfulness and meditation enable us to increase our ability to focus and also to be aware of what is going on in our minds. Meditation allows us a few minutes each day to focus on this alone. Mindfulness practices give us the chance to put this into action in every life. The combination of these two things in what enables us to develop the ability to focus better both at home and at work. We become more able to manage distractions, whether those are external, like your emails pinging, or internal, like your mind whirring at 3 am.
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