What is Mindful By Nature?

Mindful By Nature combines mindfulness, nature and walking to create a triple dose of natural wellness for your mind, body and spirit. Embracing natural settings amplifies the benefits of mindful meditation. Mindful By nature strives to empower you to replace moments of chaos with moments of calm, by developing your wellness toolkit that you can access whenever you need.

What is mindfulness?

Mindfulness is consciously paying attention to the here and now. When being mindful you are choosing to place your attention on the present moment as opposed to thinking about the past or future. We spend a surprising amount of time thinking about the past, either ruminating over unpleasant events or reminiscing about the good times. Likewise, we can spend a lot of time thinking about the future, either fantasizing about the life we wish for or worrying about what awful things might happen. Looking back and forward like that can cause us a lot of unnecessary anxiety and stress. Ultimately, we can’t change what has already happened, however we can learn from it, and we can’t control what the future will hold although we can use the present to prepare for it and approach it from a place of calm.

Why is nature so important?

When you think about how you feel when you spend time in nature, you likely feel instantly much more relaxed and unburdened, as you are free from the attention seeking distractions of your home, classroom or office. Engaging our senses is a practice in being mindful. When in nature you are invited to engage your senses over and over again. . . by the birds singing, the colours of the plants and trees, the smell of the flowers and so on. As well as feeling instinctively at home in nature, spending time in nature can reduce feelings of anger, fear and stress. Every time you reduce your stress levels you are giving yourself the chance to deal with your next challenge much more calmly.

Why include walking?

Walking allows you to physically process emotions. You can use the tone of your mood to dictate the rhythm and speed of your walking. This may help you march out some anger or frustration. When those feelings wear off a bit, which they will if you walk for long enough, you can allow your pace of walk to slow down, in turn allowing your heart rate to reduce, allow the rhythm of your walk to reflect he rhythm of your breath. Walking has been used throughout the generations, by many, including some of the greatest thinkers, to help solve problems and induce creativity.

Who do you work with and what do you offer?

Mindful By Nature works with you, your school, college or businesses to embed wellness and wellbeing as part of your ethos. Wellness workshops and mindfulness courses are adapted to meet the needs and abilities of you, your group of students and staff team. The workshops and courses can be delivered as one-off development tools or integrated into your weekly or monthly offer to enhance the wellbeing of all.

How can people get in touch?

All contact details are on the website. You can email or pick up the phone. My passion is to develop a package of support, bespoke for your needs.