ByRobyn Harris
As I was sitting in the woods by our house the other day, enjoying the stillness, I began to notice that even in the relative quiet of this space, there’s lots of activity going on: birds singing, bees buzzing, squirrels scampering and insects crawling around in the leaf litter at my feet. It got me…
ByRobyn Harris
These feelings can become overwhelming and between this and the current ‘lockdown’ restrictions, we can feel, metaphorically, like we’re ‘drowning’ or ‘struggling to breathe’. If this resonates for you, I invite you to try some breathing exercises, or to use this tapping technique to help yourself feel more comfortable. If you find yourself feeling lost,…
ByRobyn Harris
As this last post of Stress Awareness Month, I thought I’d look at the wisdom that we hold within ourselves. Our bodies know how to be well, it’s just that often we have disconnected from that wisdom. If we can find a way to reconnect and re-member that wisdom (as Neale Donald Walsch might say)…
ByRobyn Harris
When we’re feeling stressed, the first thing to remember is just to Breathe! Breathing is so important! Obviously it keeps us alive… but more than that, it gives feedback to the body on how stressed or calm we are. When we pay attention to our breath, just observing it and noticing how deep/shallow & slow/rapid it is, this will give us information…
ByRobyn Harris
Did you know that April is Stress Awareness Month? Stress plays a huge part in our sense of inner balance and wellbeing. Often we become accustomed to a certain level of stress and no longer notice that it’s there. It has become our ‘norm’. But it’s still having an impact on our health and…
ByRobyn Harris
This week I thought I would share with you a little about a presentation that I gave earlier this week. It was the last session of 2018 for The Business Haven, a networking group based in Portishead, and was followed by a fun Christmas lunch. The lunch included a draw with many wonderful prizes, donated…
ByDebs Atkinson
I am a healer, a therapist, a writer, a teacher and am mostly at the beck and call of my naughty rescue dogs. Because of my own healing journey, I have a deep belief that the changes we want to see in this world must start from within us, no exceptions. I am…
ByRobyn Harris
What an interesting process it is, selling your house and looking for a new place to live! The first response everyone gives me when I say that we’re moving is: “Oh, that’s so stressful…!” My husband and I have been house hunting for a couple of months now. We’re looking for a place with land…
ByRobyn Harris
Another way to support this is through ‘play’. I’m taking this in its broadest terms, to refer to something that you enjoy doing, that lights you up inside and that ‘makes your heart sing’ – the things that, when you are engaged in them, time ceases to exist and you’re just enjoying the moment. This…
ByRobyn Harris
When we’re in stress our bodies are effectively in Fight or Flight mode. This can be necessary, for example if we need to escape from a dangerous situation, however our bodies were not designed to stay in this state for longer than about 10-15 minutes at a time. When we remain in stress for long…
ByRobyn Harris
Another way to look at this is to imagine that we have a ‘stress bucket’. The capacity of the bucket can vary from person to person depending on the experiences we’ve had in our lives and how these have shaped our beliefs and mindset. Stress comes in to the bucket from a variety of different…
ByRobyn Harris
Unfortunately we have become conditioned to a culture where things are expected to be instant: access to information, or entertainment, and even fast food. This means that we often look for a ‘magic wand’ – a pill or procedure that will make us well – but in doing this we are relying on external things…