by Suzy Reading | Feb 25, 2013 | article, blog
This week’s post is short, sweet and hopefully life-changing! We’re all familiar with the saying “you can’t love someone else until you’ve learnt to love yourself”… Just how do we learn to do it? Here is a way: only talk to yourself as you would your best friend:
- Observe the way you talk to yourself (your inner voice and what you vocalise)
- Only talk to yourself as you would your best friend
- When you notice yourself doing anything but talking to yourself as you would your best friend, be gentle, smile, maybe have a laugh, appreciate just how hard this task can be, consciously say “I’m not doing that to myself anymore” and rephrase what you’ve said. Don’t let failure here be yet another thing you berate yourself over. (more…)
by Suzy Reading | Feb 15, 2013 | article, blog
Self-care can broadly be defined as personal health maintenance undertaken with the intention of improving or restoring health, or treating or preventing disease. I’d like to add the purpose of ‘flourishing’ to this definition and to promote the notion of thinking broader than just nourishing physical health.
When we think about practices to sustain good health and wellbeing, the most common themes are good nutrition, exercise, relaxation, sleep, hygiene, minimizing health hazards like caffeine, alcohol, and all of these are valuable, helpful elements to consider. Less often considered are those things that directly enhance psychological functioning – the things that alter how we perceive the world, our place in it and the quality of our interactions with other people.
In addition to caring for your body and nourishing your insides, I’d like to take an introductory look at some of the self-care tools that make you happier by nurturing your mental, emotional, social and spiritual bodies!
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by Suzy Reading | Dec 4, 2012 | article, blog
As the festive season dawns upon us with the multitude of Christmas catch ups, family gatherings, work do’s, the odd glass of bubbly and all the other trimmings, how can we minimise the blowout on the health, fitness and well being front?
Notice I say ‘minimise’ rather than ‘avoid’ because if you can’t let your hair down at Christmas, when can you! Here are some ideas to consider so you can still be merry without negating all your hard work… (more…)
by Suzy Reading | Nov 6, 2012 | article, blog, Yoga
Spend just 7 minutes a day to come home to your body, your mind and your calm abiding centre.
Your practice best serves you when it is a constant in your life. For the most profound effects, don’t treat your yoga as a medicine you turn to just in times of stress, or ill health – it is the tonic that best sustains us every day of our lives.
In order to make this possible let go of the idea that you must roll out your mat and be on it for at least an hour. If you have the time and the inclination then by all means do!
Consider committing to a simple 7 minute practice that you can fit into any part of your day where you have the spaciousness to plug into your body, your mind and your breath. (more…)
