The tagline of my blog says ‘Take control, feel better’ and I thought it was high time I explained that a little.
I’m in the process of learning how to let go of trying to predict all possible outcomes of new situations, and how to be a little more comfortable when sitting with uncertainty, and it’s [...]
Taking control
Visualization – getting started
Visualization can be a very useful tool to relieve stress, improve performance, and create a positive outcome scenario. Athletes use it to ‘practice’ perfect form, sales people use it to get over nervousness about cold calls, and stressed out people can use it to bring about relaxed feelings or to rehearse potentially difficult situations and [...]
Hippopotamus
One of the (many, many) things I want to do with this blog is give parents, especially stay-at-home parents, some tools to help them when they feel overwhelmed by their children.
It happens, even to the best, most patient parents. Children are not particularly reasonable creatures, what with the natural (and appropriate!) self-centredness they sport a [...]
Meditation – start small
I used to to think I was an utter failure at meditation (cue the sound of a thousand meditation teachers shaking their heads sadly) because I couldn’t keep my mind clear for any length of time. But when I read some of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s work I found out that I should be taking the word [...]
A quiet beginning
I won’t be launching this site officially for about two weeks but in case someone happens by:
Three Deep Breaths is about feeling better, a little at a time. It will contain information, ideas and tricks that I happen upon as I explore meditation, mindfulness, visualization, success literature, time management, positive psychology, good parenting and anything [...]