110 // 10 Tips for Starting the New Year Mindfully
The Mindful Kind
Rachael Kable
4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Hello and welcome to episode 110 of The Mindful Kind podcast, featuring ten tips to help you start the New Year more mindfully!
Tip 1 is to wake up in the morning and before you jump out of bed, just absorb the moment.
Tip 2 is to do a journaling practice. You could listen to episode 40 of The Mindful Kind podcast, called Mindful Journaling, for more ideas on this if you like, but a simple technique is just to get a blank page and try to let your thoughts flow on to it.
Tip 3 is to eat something mindfully.
Tip 4 is to set yourself a goal (you might like to listen to the goal setting series of the podcast starting from episode 81) and then every time you work towards that goal, do so mindfully.
Tip 5 is to do a body scan.
Tip 6 is to use a breathing technique.
Tip 7 is to stretch your body.
Tip 8 is to mindfully nourish your body with water.
Tip 9 is to use an aromatic mindfulness tool, for example, a candle, a meal, beauty products, dishwashing liquid (as you wash the dishes), or flowers.
Tip 10 is to use an affirmation.
I hope you have a wonderful start to the New Year!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey |
| 0:12.3 | and inspire you to create your own. |
| 0:14.9 | Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness, |
| 0:19.7 | from my personal experiences to useful tools and different |
| 0:23.6 | mindful techniques. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello and welcome to episode 110 of the Mindful Kyan podcast. I hope that if you celebrated Christmas, you had a |
| 0:39.2 | wonderful time and if you didn't celebrate Christmas that you had a wonderful time too. It's now |
| 0:46.1 | almost to the start of a new year and I have to say I'm really quite excited. If you hang around |
| 0:51.8 | until the end of the episode, I'll be sharing what 2018 looks like for me, but I thought I'd just jump straight into 10 top tips for starting the new year more mindfully. |
| 1:02.9 | You could try using all these tips over the next week or so and see what resonates with you and then keep doing your favourite tips, or you could just try implementing a few of them, or you could have a super mindful day and try them all, whatever works best for you. |
| 1:17.8 | However, I would like to recommend that you choose just one tip and set a reminder to do it every day for at least 60 days. |
| 1:25.7 | I was just reading an article recently about habits and even though I'm most |
| 1:31.0 | commonly hear people say it takes three weeks to form a new habit, apparently that's the best case |
| 1:37.0 | scenario. On average it actually takes around 60 days and can take up to 250 days before a new habit becomes automatic. I know that may |
| 1:47.1 | sound daunting but if you just choose one simple tip and focus on implementing that, I'm sure you'll |
| 1:53.1 | get there. You may like to set a reminder or add a mindfulness practice to an already existing |
| 1:58.3 | routine such as a bedtime or morning routine. So tip one is to |
| 2:03.2 | wake up in the morning and before you jump out of bed just absorb the moment. Feel the weight of your |
| 2:08.8 | duna or the comfort of your mattress underneath you. Tune in to how your body feels. Maybe |
| 2:14.4 | well rested and soft, maybe tired and sore. There's no need to judge how you're |
| 2:19.8 | feeling, just explore what's there for you in that moment. You could also explore how you're |
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