And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this episode is titled Mindful Moments.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Happy February, everybody.

Hope you're well.

And for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, I hope things aren't too cold for you.

It's pretty nippy here in the UK, where a majority of my listeners are.

And a lot of us, over the last few weeks, I spent the evenings under a blanket, on the sofa,

watching Winter Watch on the BBC.

Not sure if my fan base are Winter Watch and Spring Watch folk, but it certainly helps to

dilute down a lot of the doom and gloom of both the fictional dramas that humans seem drawn

towards, and the genuine dramas that are splattered all over our social media feeds.

It's finished now, but Springwatch will be back on before we know it.

And one thing that they started doing back in lockdown 2020 was what they called

mindfulness moments, probably because they needed an extra feature to pad the program out because they were struggling with all the COVID restrictions.

But I'm okay with that.

Just 90 seconds or so of nature footage.

It was lovely.

And they've carried on doing it throughout each series.

But even if you aren't that interested in nature footage, it's worth paying attention to what you're experiencing,

especially the good stuff. I think mindfulness in some respects is the secret to gratitude.

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