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Come join the discussion – we’d like to hear your views. This is where MindSteadyGo publishes articles written by founder Bridget Rooth, as well as guest authors from the wellness community.

 

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Outdoor Yoga: Four Fantastic Benefits of Practising Outdoors

Why does outdoor yoga support wellbeing? There are four major reasons to take start practising ourdoor yoga: Bringing playfulness and lightness into your yoga practice Broadening your perspective and improving your focus Feeling more grounded in a natural environment Saluting the sun under the big open sky.   Bringing playfulness and lightness into your outdoor yoga practice As soon as…
MindSteadyGo
August 4, 2022
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Sketching My Journey

When I was 50, my last child of three set off for university and I wrapped up my 12-year business life in Beijing. I too set off. I downsized my work load so that I only needed to work a long morning online; the rest of the day I was free. For the first six months, I lived in a…
MindSteadyGo
July 20, 2022
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Three ways breathing affects your business life

This article originally appeared on Maddyness UK   Fact #1 - Reversing poor breathing habits can ease body pain If you suffer from shoulder, neck pain or headaches, there is a good chance it is linked to poor breathing habits. You could be overusing your accessory breathing muscles in your chest, shoulders and neck. Your main breathing muscle, the diaphragm,…
MindSteadyGo
April 22, 2022
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Cultivating a Beginner’s Mind

I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘practice’ these past few months. Perhaps the new year period put me in a reflective mood as I looked ahead to what I want to practise in 2022. There is comfort in practice. Whether your practice is yoga, finding stillness, writing, sketching or something else. When I was in my 4-year travelling period, my daily practices…
MindSteadyGo
March 4, 2022
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From Doing to Undoing: Three Ways to Free Up Time and Headspace

Originally published on Maddyness UK   Oh to free up time and headspace - the dream of most of us workers! And yet, in our business culture, we are feted for our doings. Proclaiming them makes us feel validated But constant doing comes at a price. We become enslaved by our doings. They rule our business and home lives as…
MindSteadyGo
December 23, 2021
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The power of micro changes

What are micro changes and what is the power that lies within them? One of the recurring themes I hear from guests on my Finding Space retreat is that they don’t have time to make changes in their everyday lives! And that’s the challenge facing most of us. We lead busy lives; we push ourselves hard and we’re not so good at making…
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November 19, 2021
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The Art of Contemplation

  The art of contemplation. What do I mean by that and how do you develop one? Unlike brainstorming which is an active practice, with a specific goal and often the sharing of brains, contemplation is a solitary practice and is “the act of looking attentively at anything.” My place of contemplation is a section of sea wall on South Beach, Heacham. As…
MindSteadyGo
November 1, 2021
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How to Use Nature to Disconnect Your Thinking Mind

So, tell me, do you sometimes wish you could step off the treadmill of your thinking mind? Do you ever wish you could switch off the inner chatter? I do. Often! One way to do this is to bring your awareness to your five senses. We tend to naturally filter out sensory details during the day while we focus on…
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August 11, 2021
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Unsetting My Mind

This is a story about stones. One gratitude stone starts the tale. I gathered it from a Norfolk beach the day I ran away from London in March 2020. London locked down and I fled in a van. Although I drove the van forwards, I could see no way of moving forward in my life. I was driving away from…
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June 15, 2021
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