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What I learned from 500 days of meditation

This morning, I reached the milestone of 500 consecutive days of meditation. Yes, ok I am showing off a little bit – I’m proud of that achievement. In the last 500 days I have spent more than 280 hours meditating. This was not my first rodeo though; I had previously Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 2 years2 years ago

Mindfulness for mental health

Mindfulness seems to have become ubiquitous lately; it’s everywhere, mentioned in relation to just about everything. It’s the buzzword on everyone’s lips. But what is it, and can it help your mental health? What is mindfulness? The short answer is that mindfulness is being aware of the current moment – Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 2 years2 years ago

Small daily actions to maintain your mental health

Mental health is being discussed more and more in the mainstream in recent years, and the discussion has widened so that it’s not only for people who have “serious problems.” More and more people are beginning to realise that you don’t need to have a diagnosed mental health condition in Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 2 years2 years ago

Why I stopped meditating every day

At the beginning of 2018, I set myself a goal to meditate every day that year. I set the goal because towards the end of 2017, I was distracted and hadn’t been meditating much. By the time the new year rolled around, I was really feeling the effects of not Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 4 years4 years ago
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How to Access Your Intuition

What is intuition? We’ve all had those brief moments where we just know something, without knowing how or why we know it – but for many of us these moments of intuition are few and far between, and not something we can call upon whenever we want/need to. Intuition is Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 4 years4 years ago

Spiritual ways to deal with a major life event

This year has been something of a spiritual journey for me – in fact it still is! I’ve already written about how I have meditated every day so far in 2018; I have been providing angel card readings for friends and readers; there have been some significant changes in who Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 5 years5 years ago
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8 things I learned from 180 days of meditation

I’ve had a meditation practice for a few years now, since a client taught me Primordial Sound meditation when S was small. Since then I’ve had times where I meditated a lot, and whole months where I didn’t bother. I use the Insight Timer app to track my meditation (this Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 5 years ago
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Tips for Maintaining Mental Health

Maintaining mental health is a balancing act. It’s a bit like housework, in that you can’t just do it and then it’s done; you have to sweep your floor every day. Taking care of your mental wellness is something that requires regular attention. Sometimes it can feel like it needs Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 5 years4 years ago
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5 Ways to Be More Present as a Parent

Being a parent can be a tricky business; you have to pay the bills; put food on the table; make sure you and your child are clean and wearing matching socks… and also actually do the important job of parenting your child. It can be so easy to let your Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 5 years ago
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8 Evening Routine Essentials

Earlier this week I published a post listing things you could add to your morning routine to improve your day. It occurs to me though that the best way to get a good start on your day is to get a good night’s sleep!  Here then are XX things you Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 5 years5 years ago

10 Morning Routine Essentials

It’s new year, and many of us are busy making resolutions to “be more healthy” or “lose weight” or whatever else. I listened to a podcast the other day though where Brendon Burchard said something like (and I’m definitely paraphrasing here): If you win the morning, you win the day; Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 5 years3 years ago
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Getting Out of Survival Mode

For the last few months, It’s safe to say I’ve been operating in survival mode. First we had the summer holidays, then I found out I would be having an operation – and then I ended up having said operation as emergency surgery. Two weeks on, I’m feeling much better Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 5 years ago
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Why You Can’t Fail at Meditation

I meditate daily, and every time I mention meditation to someone, I get the same response over and over (and over and over) again: I can’t meditate; when I try to my brain just kicks into overdrive. Here’s the one thing nobody tells you about meditation though: that happens to everyone. Every Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 6 years6 years ago
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How to be a Morning Person

  Just lately, I’ve been getting up at 5:30am to workout, meditate and read before getting S up for nursery. When I mention this to people they say things like “I wish I could do that” or “you’re lucky you’re a morning person.” It’s not that I’m necessarily a “morning Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 7 years4 years ago
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How to Meditate

I’ve meditated on and off for years. Towards the end of 2013 I did a course in Primordial Sound Meditation courtesy of The Sleep Guru, and since then I have been practising this type of meditaiton. Whenever I mention meditation, people seem to have endless questions about it. Just lately Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years8 years ago
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3 Ways to Meditate

    For those who are not aware, I’m undertaking a year-long Happines Project this year, with a different challenge each month. This month, my challenge is to meditate each day. Before I learned to meditate I thought it was some sort of wizardry where you had to learn some sort Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years6 years ago

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