After 25 years on TV, Ruby Wax didn’t expect her next chapter to involve mindfulness but a very public Comic Relief mental health campaign pushed her to find something that genuinely helped frazzled minds.
What surprised her was that mindfulness wasn’t just “nice in theory”: it had evidence behind it, including measurable changes seen in brain scans. Ruby describes mindfulness as a way to catch yourself in the act – to notice the thoughts and labels you repeat and to stop hardwiring them through constant rehearsal.
Here, she takes you through a simple mindfulness for beginners practice to help you step out of autopilot, settle your mind and body and come back to the present, so you can respond rather than react.
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