NICE also recommends that employers make mindfulness available to all employees, to support mental wellbeing at work. How to be more mindful

It’s become increasingly common for mindfulness meditation to be combined with psychotherapy, especially cognitive behavioral therapy. This development makes good sense, since both meditation and cognitive behavioral therapy share the common goal of helping people gain perspective on irrational, maladaptive, and self-defeating thoughts. Mindfulness techniques It's easy to stop noticing the world around us. It's also easy to lose touch with the way our bodies are feeling and to end up living "in our heads" – caught up in our thoughts without stopping to notice how those thoughts are driving our emotions and behaviour. Paying attention to what’s going on right this second can be hard. We often spend more time thinking about what’s coming up in the future. Or dwelling on things in the past we can’t change. We can miss out on experiencing the present.Mindfulness involves paying attention to what is going on inside and outside ourselves, moment by moment. Urge surfing – Cope with cravings (for addictive substances or behaviors) and allow them to pass. Notice how your body feels as the craving enters. Replace the wish for the craving to go away with the certain knowledge that it will subside. Mindfulness meditation and other practices

ACTivate Your Lifewill reconnect you with yourself, by showing how the techniques of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can be used to set meaningful goals and give your life some direction. It includes:Activate Your Life exists to encourage, resource and inspire Christian woman to ‘with-reach’ their friends, neighbours, work colleagues and relatives with God’s love. It enables women to be secure in their identity, living life as Jesus intended it in all its fullness and at the heart of their community, creating innovative and natural opportunities, openings and friendships. Our aim is to be creative, forward thinking and always stretching the boundaries of how Christian women can be salt and light in a fluid society. Our objectives