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The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

STRESS AND MINDFULNESS

Welcome to the second episode of The Mindful Kind podcast! In this episode, I've dug deep to share my journey of stress and mindfulness with you.

When I was younger, stress played a huge role in my life and I found it really difficult to deal with. My relationships suffered, I felt alone and judged and even resulted in nasty tension headaches and high blood pressure.

When I learned mindfulness and started to practise it, I realised how far out of the moment I was, all the time. I was shocked to realise that I had never actually paid attention to my normal breath and how it felt!

Mindfulness has been a really amazing tool for managing stress and I hope my story can show you just one of the reasons why mindfulness has been such an important part of my life.

Towards the end of the episode, I share a beautifully simple mindfulness practice by tuning into our sense of smell.

Transcript

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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.
0:31.5	Hello there and welcome back for the second episode of The Mindful Kind.
0:36.2	Today I'm talking all about stress and mindfulness and sharing some more of my own journey
0:40.8	with you.
0:42.3	I'm just going to jump straight into it.
0:44.6	So to be honest, I can't even remember when stress started for me, but it hit me the
0:49.9	hardest in year rate of high school and again in year 11.
0:57.5	For me, I'd describe stress as a heavy weight. It feels like I can't ever get enough air and there's a really like tight pressure in my
1:03.4	chest and in my stomach as well. I would often get tensioned headaches in the back of my head
1:08.2	because I tensed up a lot in my neck. There often wasn't anything
1:12.8	in particular that would really trigger my stress. During high school, it was really just a feeling
1:20.1	that I became used to. As I said, I really struggled with it in year eight. I remember just questioning
1:27.2	everything I did and everything I
1:29.3	said because I honestly thought that everybody was judging me. Where I'm a very comfortable
1:36.6	introvert now, I was painfully shy back then. I remember sitting with groups of my friends
1:44.0	and I just, I couldn't talk because by the time I'd thought of something to say and, you know, finished analysing it in my mind and then committed it to my memory word for word, the conversation had just completely moved on.
1:57.9	I don't look back and regret anything because I know that I wouldn't be who I am right
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