Mindful Gail July Newsletter
- gailcalthrop
- 5 days ago
- 4 min read
Welcome to my July Newsletter Everyone!
It is a busy time for me, preparing for a family wedding, organising various events, working and all the usual family stuff.
I find myself, more than ever at the moment, needing to take my own advice, to pause and take time, however short, for myself. The pause moments are my life saver, to steady and balance as stress and anxieties build. I short circuit this and remember every moment is, and can be, a mindful moment. We do not need to always go off and have a long meditation, as great as that is; be flexible with yourself, and PAUSE. Pause with your feet on the grass, gaze at the golden sunset, wonder at the perfect reflection of the upside down world in a hanging rain drop, taste and smell the crunch of the carrot, hear the birdsong ring out. These are the simple daily mindful moments that take care of you in every day life; tiny extraordinary moments that nourish and support you in the ‘ordinary’ minutes of daily life.
Little breath, breathe me gently, row me gently, for I am a river I am learning to cross.
- W. S. Merwin
Mindfulness Evening in June
I was delighted recently to share an evening of mindful activities, skills, practices and meditations in a beautiful location in the Acqua Dolce Studios, in Hampton Bishop, Hereford.
We dropped into our senses in Nature, experienced the breath in all its changing flows, allowed sound to activate the soothing parasympathetic nervous system in and eased into meditations that released our tensions and calmed the mind.
Here is some feedback;
“I enjoyed the variety of [mindful] activities and poetry’
‘I felt cared for’
‘Calm serene space’
‘Enjoyed nature outside’
‘We all come with heads full of 'important' tasks/or emotions etc but leave with peace, calm and acceptance. It is a valuable time to give ourselves. Space to focus on ourselves and surroundings and you are the excellent enabler.’
‘Length of session was perfect’
‘A regular evening session would be most beneficial and easier to work around than a whole day’
Mindful Events Coming up:
Mindful Evenings
Discover short, mindful activities and practices that can make impactful and lasting changes within your life.
6:30pm-8:30pm
Hampton Bishop, Hereford, HR14JU
Monthly On-Line Mindful Drop In
Wednesday 23rd July 7-8pm:.
Just £10 per session or £35 for four booked sessions.
Finding regular solace and calm with my monthly Mindfulness On-Line Drop Ins.
For a mindfulness session from the comfort of your home, join me on THURSDAY 15th May, 7pm-8pm and give yourself the gift of kind attention, to connect to the healing stillness of kind connection and compassion that strengthens and empowers our resilience and wellbeing. When we practise mindfulness, we nourish and support ourselves in the busy life we lead, creating space to manage our life helpfully.
Check out all my up and coming events here!
The Power of Nature in our world
Nature is a powerful part of our world and gives unique opportunities to be mindful with. This Study of trees and forests shows how ‘living’ trees anticipate and react to their environment and changes. They are not passive and we can be in their presence mindfully, experience and be part of their ‘electrical’ interactions and activity.
In a remarkable discovery, scientists have found that trees may act as a “living collective”, synchronising their internal electrical signals in anticipation of a solar eclipse.
During the 2022 eclipse over Italy’s Dolomites, researchers recorded spruce trees aligning their bioelectrical activity hours before the event began.
This suggests trees don’t just passively experience environmental changes - they anticipate and respond to them as interconnected organisms. The older the tree, the stronger its anticipatory signals, pointing to a potential transmission of ecological awareness across the forest.
Using custom sensors on living trees and even old stumps, the scientists observed coordinated changes in voltage within cells, known as bioelectrical potentials. These signals, driven by ion flows across membranes, indicate trees might communicate and adapt collectively.
The findings lend strong support to the idea that forests are not merely clusters of individual plants, but interdependent systems where ancient trees play a key role in resilience and ecosystem intelligence. The study also adds weight to growing calls to preserve old-growth forests for their unseen but vital ecological wisdom.
(The study is published in the journal of the Royal Society Open Science.)
For our turbulent times
when the world
goes mad
become wildly kind
to everyone
everyone
everyone
everyone
my love,
~you can’t control
much
but you control how
you treat others
in these breaking news
heart-breaking times
when nothing feels
certain
let your raw kindness
be a certainty
allow your compassion
to become a North Star
stamped up in
the sky for
others to follow
back home
~ john roedel
If you have any questions or comments, please do contact me. I wish you a peaceful and suitably warm July.
With love, Gail
YOU TUBE
I have now added some new videos, please check them out!
I also recorded a few meditation videos during Covid and put them onto a YouTube channel. Their content can be helpful now as it was then, so have a look if you would like to follow guided practices. Follow the link HERE!
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Mindfulness crept into my life about 12 years ago after I completed a Mindfulness Based Reduction for Stress Course [MBSR], offered by my workplace, a Hospice. The teachings touched a need in me to want to experience life in a calmer and more enjoyable way; to find ways to be present helpfully to the way my life was unfolding rather than engage in battling with the automatic behaviours with repeating conflicting thoughts and emotions, with all the attendant emotional and physical fallouts.
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