Episode Nine: BE THE CHANGE. Mindful Lockdown, COVID-19

Lockdown has brought an endless amount of emotional and physical reactions and our mental health is being put under enormous strain. I was curious in how mindfulness practices could be part of our coping strategies.

Dr Bill Paterson has many roles but one of these is mindfulness coach. He kindly took the time to chat to me about how mindfulness practices can help in coping with lockdown.

We chatted remotely but managed to cover some varied topics, such as how structure in our days may help our mental health. Concepts of nothingness, impermanence, spaciousness and how awareness may arise. How to deal with heightened feelings and anxiety. How self compassion maybe a better route to peace then self esteem.

This episode was recorded in week four of UK lockdown where I wasn't coping as well as maybe now and I open up about my frustrations

Bill inspired me to record my own compassion break heart mediation and this is included later on in episode for us to practice together.