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Anxiety, From the Blog, Mindfulness / October 26, 2025

Breathing techniques for anxiety can be powerful tools for regaining calm and focus — whether you’re preparing for a big performance, a meeting, or simply trying to quiet your mind. Feeling anxious? You know that physical rush: your heart races, your breath shortens, your palms sweat, your mind spins. That sensation doesn’t just happen before […]

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Jan 24 2020

Meditation, Equanimity & Anxiety

From the Blog, Mindfulness, Mindset, Wellbeing / January 24, 2020

Cultivate equanimity to help with anxiety – Notice, Accept, Float Using meditation to cultivate equanimity can enable one to manage unpleasant or unwanted emotions in a way that reduces their impact. Podcast… Yesterday I recorded an episode of the podcast, Enhance Your Life with Nonie Carr, on this topic. Listen to the podcast on this

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Feb 27 2019

The Elephant in the Room: Understanding Anxiety and Attention

Anxiety, Mindfulness, Mindset, Performance / February 27, 2019

There are times when anxiety becomes impossible to ignore. You might try to push it aside, focus on what you’re doing, or carry on as if it’s not there. But the more it is ignored, the more present it seems to become. It starts to take up space. This is where the metaphor of the

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Oct 16 2018

World Mental Health Day 10/10

Anxiety, depression, Mindfulness, Wellbeing / October 16, 2018

Yes, this post is a little late. But if you are following Enhance Life Psychology on Instagram (see the link at the bottom of the page) you would have seen that I was very active on October 10. I posted a series of 10 tips on how to enhance your mental health and how you

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Sep 24 2018

Being in the Now: How to Bring Attention Back to the Present

From the Blog, Mindfulness, Performance, Wellbeing / September 24, 2018

It is common to hear the idea of “being in the moment” spoken about as something we should be able to do easily. As though it is a calm place we can step into. In practice, it is rarely that simple. The present moment often includes distraction, self-consciousness, or a sense of pressure. Especially when

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Aug 22 2018

Gratitude, breathing to manage anxiety and the Calm app

Anxiety, Mindfulness, Wellbeing / August 22, 2018

This is a collection of videos from the Enhance Life Psychology Facebook and Instagram accounts. I thought I’d collect them here into one blog post for those who might have missed them on social media. A Little Gratitude… I spoke about gratitude and gave an example of how you could express gratitude by referring to

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Apr 13 2018

Moments of Mindfulness

Anxiety, Mindfulness, Wellbeing / April 13, 2018

Mindfulness can be difficult sometimes, but know that you can find these moments anywhere. I needed to take a break from sitting at my desk so I took myself for an afternoon bike ride. I eventually found myself down at Princes Pier in Port Melbourne. I recorded a short video during a moment of mindfulness…

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Feb 13 2018

Kindness: an element of compassion

Anxiety, Mindfulness, Wellbeing / February 13, 2018

Do you struggle with an unhelpful internal monologue? Do you often catch yourself telling yourself that you’re just not good enough, or can’t do ‘that’, or will never do ‘that’? I wonder if practising kindness and compassion towards others might help you to learn to be kind and compassionate with yourself. Kindness is an act

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Sep 25 2017

5 Facts on Mindfulness

Mindfulness, Wellbeing / September 25, 2017

What is mindfulness? A growing body of evidence suggests that the practice of mindfulness, which originates from Buddhist methodologies, may improve both mental and physical health, and could improve our overall state of mind and wellbeing when managing stressful situations. Here are 5 facts about mindfulness. (Click the link to see the infographic in PDF form.)

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Sep 21 2017

What is mindfulness?

Mindfulness / September 21, 2017

Do you know what mindfulness is? Here’s a short video that explains what mindfulness is. I’ve also shared it on the Enhance Life Psychology Facebook page. I will post a transcription on the content over the next few days.

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