Welcome to Week 9!
Your challenge this week, is simple but so effective!
Commit to one daily mindfulness habit, such as:
Meditation
Journaling
Breathwork
Screen Breaks
Reading
Your mindset wins the next 3 weeks… keep up the hard work!
CHALLENGE: Comment your mindfulness focus for the week, and check-in each day in the thread.
PRIZE: Tub of Greens
I actually bought a book for the first time in a few years Friday and started it over the weekend so my aim this week is to read this for at least half an hour every evening
Breathe work/mediation plus screen breaks.
I use an app called insight timer and it’s got so many different breathing and guided mediation exercises for anyone who is new to it and wants to try. YouTube is also good for this kind of stuff 
It find it a really nice thing to do as it’s like a period of time of quiet that is just for you
This week is an odd week for me I had a car accident a few weeks ago and my back has gone this has left me with no choice but to not train this week I’m devastated! But I have to listen to my body! Got a sports massage on Friday 
it does what it’s supposed to and I can get back to it, so this mindfulness week couldn’t have come at a better time 
but we can do hard things! X
My focus this week is meditation and breath control 
I’m wanting to relax my sore body and mind and recover quicker for the final weeks so I can push myself more
My focus will be reading.
I’ve been trying to get back into reading and stop the doom scrolling.
This is the ideal challenge to get me going with it.
I love this challenge. As someone who suffers mentally I already do this regularly & it does make a big impact.
I attend icebaths on Fridays which helps control the mind, high natural endorphins also snaps me out of dissociation - flight or fight mode i always find I have the best nights rest afterwards.
I also attend mountain yoga on a Saturday for breathing work, helps slow a fast pace mind & make you more aware, relaxed & present in the moment.
I find listening to audio books on the stair master calming & is also a great hack, I get so engrossed & distracted time goes very quickly.
I need to work on journaling, I rarely don’t get much time to be on my phone 
Last night’s breath work that did lead me to falling asleep!
I highly recommend the app insight timer! It’s free with sooooo many teachers and many mediations and exercises for different things - sleep, stress, anxiety. I’ve been using it for well over a year!
Mountain yoga sounds awesome. Well not sure about the yoga as I’m like the tin man, but could be tempted by the mountain. 
I’ve committed to no scrolling in the gym and am going to attempt to listen to music only as well (usually have podcasts going 24/7 ) to give my brain a full hour to switch off and leave room for mind wandering
Added benefit has been more focused sets
Time for that bedtime read and a goodbye to the screen!
Sleep capsules arrived today too so let’s see how the sleep goes over the next few days 
Breath work before bed and I now have 7 days of good sleep behind me after a few weeks of very little! 
I don’t even remember finishing the exercise and I love it when that happens!
Another evening breath work session. Was not a session I enjoyed. Too much holding of breath in this one.
Feel asleep during last nights breath work. Some just really hit the spot for calming the mind.
Had to add yesterdays breath work to previous post.
Ocean breathing may be my new favourite. Was soooo nice
had to add to this post again as won’t let me add another. Another night of ocean breathing that sent me to sleep. Love this kind of breath work
Last week before going to sleep i have been putting on alexa and playing mindfulness music to help relieve any stress and help too have a good sleep and i think its been working
Did anyone win this challenge @Anna ?
