Have you ever found yourself washing up and lost in a daydream? Sitting still and ruminating? Or in the shower and making a to-do list? As we will see, you are not alone.

There is a secret pudding that comes with Mindfulness meditation too, and it is an often overlooked treat.

We are able to experience a world inside of our self, and outside of ourself. But what do they contain, and where should we placing our focus?

A Mindfulness and Meditation practice should have plenty of playfulness, companionship, smiles and joy.

We all have an inner critic, but have you stopped long enough to be curious about it? Did you also know about your inner nurturer? Through Mindful awareness we don’t have to react to the bully and instead treat ourselves with kindness.

Once we can tune in and hear our feelings more easily it can begin to help us to understand our boundaries which is particularly helpful for preventing burnout, as well as for being able to enjoy the more gentle experiences in life.

I would offer that if we can let just one little thing in at a time and treat it with kindness and offer it a seat at the table, then it is much less likely to ransack the house and it will eventually leave of its own accord.

One of the biggest tricks going in the world of meditation is when someone tells you to “simply keep your focus on your breathing” or “Now, just empty your mind”.

There is nothing simple about it!

People tend to need less noise and complication, not more. We are interested in stripping away the complications and allowing the individual to focus on the most important tool that they have: their self.

“There are 2 reasons why you don’t know what you want. 1. You already have it. 2. You don’t know your self” – Alan Watts.

Tom Powell explores the feeling of wanting, searching, seeking and finding.