Happy New Year! It’s been an embarrassingly long time since I’ve written a blog post let alone sent a newsletter out to my lovely subscribers. The main reason for that is simply that I haven’t had as much time to dedicate to Mindfully Hannah as I did when I first started the newsletter. As with many intentions and goals we set ourselves, they aim too high to be realistically achievable and the result is often that we feel a sense of disappointment in ourselves for not being able to keep to a goal or follow through on an intention. As[…]

In Saturday’s online meditation class, I talked particularly about one of the pillars of mindfulness: letting go. This refers to the fact that when practising mindfulness – maintaining non-judgemental awareness of the present moment – we are often attached to certain ideas or thoughts we may have about the practice, and so we need to let go of these in order to be truly present, and to enable us to see the moment for what it is.