by Katherine Mair | Aug 12, 2015 | Mindfulness, Practice Insights, Uncategorized
We all rely on them. In fact we all use them unconsciously every day. Heuristics are mental short cuts that enable us to ease cognitive load and make decisions more quickly. It’s the ‘rule of thumb’ that helps us to deal with whatever comes our way each day...
by Katherine Mair | Jul 12, 2015 | Breathing Exercises, Mindfulness, Practice Insights
Do you regularly find yourself running from meeting to meeting? Do you feel like you lurch from task to task, request to request, as you toil through yet another manic day? This simple technique can be used anywhere, anytime to re-boot, reset and refocus. It takes...
by Katherine Mair | Jun 25, 2015 | Mindfulness, Practice Insights
What? A day without the phone! Impossible. This absurd idea occurred to me as I caught myself compulsively checking my phone – as though something new had arrived since the last time I’d checked, oh just a few seconds earlier. It took a week before I could even...
by Katherine Mair | May 24, 2015 | Mindfulness, Practice Insights
You’ve never seen anything like it. It really was awful. I’d been putting off dealing with it but there’s only so long you can let your four year old get around with an enormous clump of knotty hair engulfing her head. I had no idea where to start. So I simply sat...
