What started out three years ago from my desire to cultivate a mindfulness practice, has become a regular feature that I look forward to each October.
Yes folks, The Mindful Break is back!
The need for a mindful break
We lead stressful lives, juggling work, home, studies, families, social duties, and seemingly endless to-do lists. In an effort to find some relief, we end up vegging out on the sofa and binge watching our favourite shows on Netflix. But instead of helping us to unwind, our addiction to consuming content only ends up numbing us out and does us more harm than good.
What our minds need is a pause – some time to disconnect from everything that is happening all over the world, and to focus on what is right in front of us – a mindful break. A few moments of pause sprinkled throughout the day can bring immense benefits – the biggest of which is the resilience to deal with almost anything that life throws at us. And when we can approach our adversities with a calm mind, that’s almost half the battle won!
But going from an always-on culture to remembering to take breaks isn’t always easy, which is why I created The Mindful Break.
What is The Mindful Break?
It is a 15 day photography challenge – a simple reminder to be in the moment, a gentle pause in the middle of all the frenetic activity. This is an easy way for you to begin to cultivate a mindfulness practice along with some much-needed accountability as you start to build a new habit!
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The “rules” are super simple.
Post 1 photo a day {or more if you wish!} on Instagram using #TheMindfulBreak hashtag.
Take a look at the activity in the hashtag to chat with new peeps and find some interesting new Instagrammers to follow.
Add a link to your Instagram account so we can find new peeps to interact with and follow.
There is no compulsion to follow anyone, and you don’t have to be a blogger to participate. Just share your photos on Instagram using #TheMindfulBreak hashtag and have fun! {Oh, and make sure your Instagram account is not set to private, or we won’t be able to find you!}
The challenge runs on Instagram from 15 to 31 October.
Head over to the main challenge page to add your Instagram account to the linky and let’s have some fun!
The Mindful Break 2018 participants
Lovely! I loved it last year and am happy to take part this year, Shinjini!
Yay! It will be great to see your lovely photographs in the hashtag stream.
I havent been part of such a challenge. SOunds interesting. Not sure If I could do justice to it, but am surely going to be follwing you on this.
Oh there’s no benchmark to live up to. Just find your moments of mindfulness, click and share. I’ll look forward to seeing your photographs. And do add your Instagram handle to the linky if you haven’t already.
Love that you are hosting this, Shinjini! I enjoyed it last year. Looking forward to this year’s Mindful Break! Hugs!
Yay! I loved seeing your mindful moments last year. Looking forward to your photographs again this year.
I am all up for it, Jini. For me, October means #TheMindfulBreak 🙂
Yippeee!! I will look for your photographs (and for Muffy) 😉 <3
It’s a nice challenge ! I will be in.
Awesome!! Yay!!
I’m so excited about participating for the first time. Looking forward to an exciting October.
Yay! I hope you enjoy it!!
It sounds like a great challenge. So glad you are hosting it. Good luck and all the best.
It’s a lot of fun, for sure! Hope you can join in!!
Looking forward to this challenge. Sounds like a lot of fun. Thanks for hosting.
Looking forward to seeing your mindful moments, Suzy.
I remember taking part in this last year and it was interesting! I’ll try to do it this time too.
Yay! I’ll look forward to seeing your photographs.
Just what I needed Shinjini. <3
I'll try to post as often as I can. Thank you sweetheart, for bringing the #mindful exercise back.
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Yippee! I will look forward to your photographs. And the mindful break is something I myself look forward to, too!
Cool, very interesting it sounds. Count me in 🙂
Great! Hope you added your Insta handle to the linky as well 🙂
Just did 🙂
This is a good way of being mindful and staying in the moment. I am not at all good at clicking photos though I think this should not be a show-stopper.
Absolutely no need for beautiful photographs – just your moments, captured as imperfectly or perfectly as you wish. xx
I am already late to the game, and not particularly good with photos either, but this does sound perfect. Will try to participate in some way atleast. Such a great idea!
Not late! It starts on 15th October. And no need to be good with photographs, either! It’s more like a life (in this case mindfulness) documentation challenge. 🙂
This seems like a nice challenge. I gather there are no prompts or anything. I might sign up this year. It’s been one crazy year
Nope, no prompts! xx
I am loving this idea! As you know I need this right about now xx #ABloggingGoodTime
YAASSSSS!!!! I LOVE this one!!! signed up and already in the mode!
Yay!! Looking forward to your mindful moments xx
Sounds like a good one! I would love to join. Will try this year <3
Wonderful! I will look forward to seeing your mindful moments
I’ve never heard of such a challenge but I think it is something I need to try
thanks for linking to #ablogginggoodtime
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