Mindfulness for Mums: Simple ways to help you and your family feel calm, connected and content

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While brushing your daughter’s hair, for example, think about how the hair feels, think about the colour of the hair, the way the hair falls or how the curls bounce.

Now gently open your eyes and move your body. As you reengage with the activities of your day, see if you can carry the awareness that you have cultivated with you. Important to note! Being a Mindful Parent is not about being a Perfect Parent! You don't have to have any specific training or experience, but you do need motivation to practice.So in mindfulness it's this ability to start recognising our own patterns of thinking that may not be that helpful for us. Once we start recognising those unhelpful patterns then we can start doing something about it, we can start having a choice. It's sort of reducing our reactivity and increasing our ability to respond more wisely.”

There are many apps available to assist you in becoming more mindful. Most mindfulness techniques are a form of meditation. You are more than a mom or wife, you are you, and there are things you enjoyed before you became a mom or a wife. Before jumping out of bed in a frazzled hurry when the alarm buzzes, take a few moments to start the day with intentional breathing awareness.Before we get started below I’d like to take a moment to recommend the book, breathe mamma breathe. This book hit me right in the heart because every day I feel like I can’t keep up the frantic, out of control pace, that I’m stressed exhausted, that I yell at my children more than I enjoy them, I feel guilty, I’m distracted and am constantly replaying my to-do lists in my head.