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Learn to crochet for relaxation starts 6 June, 7-9 pm Tawa Wellington.
 Kia ora!
Last week before the long Easter weekend!!
Hope this means that you get some time for you! By now you will know that I’m a big fan of Creative Mindfulness.
Mindfulness is meditation too, but often thiscan be really hard, especially for busy people!! Being creative can be a great alternative.
Making something, gives your busy mind something to focus on. That can break the cycle of busy thinking about lots of things that only make you feel more stressed. So, this week, come up with things that you could be making when you take the t
ime. And go for it!
Even looking for inspiration, can be relaxing!
Have a good week!
M Healthy Mind, Happy Heart  |
giving and kindness
☀ You can make this beginner’s crochet Easter basket here: https://easynowmindfulness.com/hooked-on-crochet/🎃Halloween give away!! 🎃
Happy Halloween, great prizes to be won here!!!
I’m giving away 4 mandala colouring books I bought in the Netherlands!!
Good luck!
Monique
Healthy Mind Happy Heart
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Free Weekly Mindfulness
Last Creative Mindfulness class this term is Tuesday!
Register for next term by emailing me on monique@easynowmindfulness.com!!
We are also colouring again on Sunday, 10-12, at the Tawa Community Centre.
Good morning!!
Last week in the Creative Mindfulness Class ( you are welcome to our last meeting tomorrow in Tawa by the way) we did a mindfulness of thinking practice.
This is something you can easily try at home too.
The goal is to learn to notice the thoughts popping up in your mind (which is normal and happens all the time).
So no analysing, no judging, no liking, no disliking, just noticing every thought as it pops up in your mind, and disappears again.
When you become more aware of what is going on in your mind, you will get more control over your mind, and will be more able to decide what thoughts are helpful for you, and what thoughts are unhelpful. It will be easier to let those unhelpful thoughts pass by, by just noticing them and not giving them any more attention.
So this week, take a moment to find a nice quiet spot to sit, close your eyes, focus on your breathing for 10 breaths and than bring all your attention to your thinking. A couple of minutes to start with will be great!
Have an awesome week,
M
Healthy Mind, Happy Heart
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Free Weekly Mindfulness
You have two more weeks to come to the Tuesday evening Creative Mindfulness class before the holidays!!
Learn to crochet is running again from 1 November, register now before it’s fully booked again (as happened last time!) Register here: http://www.tawacomed.co.nz/Course,Beginner-Crochet-Wellington,2433
FREE weekly mindfulness
Hello and happy Monday!!
Last week I noticed something interesting. Well I found it interesting! 
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I was surprised by a probably impulsive and judgemental comment on a post. And the reason it surprised me, is that I hardly ever read comments like this.
The good thing is that I must be surrounded by loving and kind people on Facebook that always leave me positive and kind comments!! So that also made this comment stand out more.
It also got me thinking that being kind, nice, accepting, positive, complimenting is a habit. And if we all train ourselves to have this habit, the negativism will only stand out more, and can be ignored more easily.
So this week make an effort to be aware of your kindness, and thankful of kindness of others.
Have a great week,
aroha nui,
M
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 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
Free Weekly Mindfulness and upcoming courses.
Upcoming classes:
Sunday 2 July: Tawa All Good Colourers, at the Community Centre 10-12.
Wednesday 2 August, 4 week learn to crochet at Tawa Community Adult Education
Monday 7 August: 8 week Rewire Your Brain for Happiness.
Tuesday 15 August: 6 week Creative Mindfulness.
Email monique@easynowmindfulness.com to register.
Good morning from Dunedin!! Feeling grateful to be here and I couldn’t have done this without one of my best friends, looking after our kids!!
Mindfulness is easy, it’s paying attention, in the here and now, with curiosity, acceptance and openheartedness, and without judging.
That means, it’s mostly an attention trainer!
This week, try to bring your attention to your body, the sensations in your body, just a couple of times a day.
Usually when you’re walking, your mind will wander off. Bringing your focus back to your body can help in stopping this wandering. As often the wandering can be ruminating, worrying, stressing, planning etc. Which only fatigues the brain and makes you feel bad.
Another way to be more mindful of the body is to start practicing yoga. I use the downdog app and absolutely love it! Great for beginners too! You can use it any time, any where, even at your work 🙂
Have a great week!
Don’t forget to register for the upcoming courses, the 8 week MBSR, 6 week creative mindfulness or the just crochet!!!
M
Healthy Mind, Happy Heart
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🌷the yoga app: https://www.downdogapp.com
Upcoming classes and Free Weekly Mindfulness Workout
Upcoming classes:
Tuesday 6 June: Creative Mindfulness.
Saturday 17 June: Mindfulness for Kids workshop, 1-4 pm.
Sunday 2 July: Tawa All Good Colourers.
Monday 7 August: 8 week Rewire Your Brain for Happiness.
Email monique@easynowmindfulness.com to register.
Yesterday was Yarn bombing day and I had great fun with that!
If you missed the pics on facebook https://www.facebook.com/easynowmindfulness/ you can see them below as well.
Hope you join me next year!!
You can learn to crochet at Tawa Community Education in August to get ready for it!
See the latest newsletter here:
http://mailchi.mp/369f9f6eb010/qrqirdo3zp
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Last week we talked about, and practiced, mindful eating at the Creative Mindfulness class. One of the things that came up, is that mindful eating is about keeping the joy in eating, and eat with your full attention, making wise choices about what to eat. Deciding on foodoptions the same way you spend your money wisely.
A great way to do that is to have a lunchdate with yourself. And we are so extremely lucky in Wellington to have so many great food trucks, that this is such a fun exercise too!!
So this week, go on that lunch date!!
Pick something your really like, (maybe a smaller portion of something that is a bit more expensive than your usual lunch), find a nice spot to sit outside, and eat with your full attention. Taking in how it looks, how it feels, how it smells, and how it tasts.
Show me your lunches ok??!!
Have a great week,
M
Yarn bombing pictures of Tawa:
Feel good about you, rewire your brain!
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Did you know your brain is wired to focus on negative things and to quickly forget about positive things? Because that’s what helping for survival!
However that makes us easily forget all the good things we do.
If you want to feel more postive about yourself, you need to train your brain to focus on the things that are good about you. This might feel a bit uneasy at first, but you will get good at it, really quickly!
So this week, every day, take a moment to pause and think about what was good about you so far today. And when you think about it, also bring back all the sensations about it. The sounds, the smells, what did you see, how did it feel. That is important to really make the change.
Have a great week!
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ps I hope the people that planned to plant persil all around the Wellington Station, feel really good about themselves. Because I love it! Did you know??
Selfcompassion in words and actions
I had to be in Christchurch on Friday. Doing the workshop to become a primary school mindfulness facilitator.
I decided to fly out on the Thursday morning and make it a long weekend away, just for me.
Why?
Because it is ok to look after yourself and do something fun just for you! Selfcompassion in mindfulness is not only being kind in your self talk, but also being kind towards yourself in your actions.
This week how about doing something kind towards yourself? You have every right to do that. It helps path your way to a happy life, where you feel good in yourself and towards others. Go on, give it a go! If it feels a bit unusual, that’s ok, all new things can feel a bit odd in the beginning. Don’t let that stop you!
