Introduction to Mindfulness
Introduction to Mindfulness At its core, mindfulness meditation is a practice of cultivating present-moment awareness and non-judgmental attention to our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surroundings.
What about the mindfulness part of financial mindfulness
What about the financial mindfulness part. One crucial component of the Financial Mindfulness program is the practice of mindfulness.
Sunk cost fallacy and mindless behaviour
Sunk cost fallacy and mindless behaviour. If you’ve ever persisted with a dead-end job, a loveless relationship or a university degree you quickly regretted starting, all in the hope things will somehow improve, you might want to pay attention. Maybe you’ve endured reading a novel you hated from the first chapter or stayed through a […]
Why isn’t mindfulness working for me
Why isn’t mindfulness working for me. Mindfulness, in theory, sounds great. The deal seems to be roughly this: if I sit still and listen to my breathing for 10 minutes each day, I will be calmer, certainly cooler, possibly richer and definitely an all-round better person. So how come it’s not working, you might ask […]
Mindfulness can help you get in control of your spending
Mindfulness can help you get in control of your spending. Why do we spend money to feel good now, even if it’s obviously going to have negative consequences at some point, such as damaging financial stress. And why do we seem to make better decisions if those decisions are planned and not impulsive? The answer […]
Mindfulness to remain a key part of what it means to be human in the future
Mindfulness to remain a key part of what it means to be human in the future. While we look in awe at the videos of amazing robots coming out of labs worldwide on ever smarter smartphones, sceptics and academics are meanwhile busy wrestling with the real value of mindfulness. A leading British expert has made […]
Using Mindfulness practice to help reduce financial stress
Using Mindfulness practice to help reduce financial stress. Mindfulness has been a big buzzword for several years. The cabin-fever worry of the COVID pandemic reinvigorated mindfulness as a solution too. Mental health organisations, major news outlets, universities and of course meditation programs were discussing the merits of mindfulness as a way to deal with COVID stress. In […]
Happy holidays: stress less with mindfulness this Christmas
Happy holidays: stress less with mindfulness this Christmas. Christmas and the holidays are mostly feelgood times. At least the ideas behind them are positive, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t stressful. Clinical Neuropsychologist Dr Michael Takagi, says there’s plenty of evidence to show stress comes from happy occasions too: “Planning a wedding is a joyful, […]
Mindfulness and the Sunk Cost Bias
Understanding the Sunk-Cost Fallacy If you’ve ever persisted with a dead-end job, loveless relationship, or regrettable university degree, hoping it will somehow improve, or ‘chased your losses’ by doubling down, this article is for you, Mindfulness and the Sunk Cost Bias.
Why isn’t mindfulness working for me
Why isn’t mindfulness working for me. Mindfulness, in theory, sounds great. The deal seems to be roughly this: if I sit still and listen to my breathing for 10 minutes each day I will be calmer, certainly cooler, possibly richer and definitely an all-round better person. So how come it’s not working, you might ask, […]