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3 Stress-Busting Breathers to kickstart a mindful habit

Need inspiration to kickstart a lifelong mindful habit? Try these simple stress-busting in 1 minute and experience the benefits of deeper calm, emotional regulation, sharper focus and brain function. Helping you live and lead with more happiness and wellbeing

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Derek Hill Derek Hill

Mindful Leadership “Presence” in Depth

Feeling out of your depth? đŸ«§ Learn how Mindful Leaders thrive without coming up for air. Noticing the signs of stress before they become burnout. And inspiring others by building healthy habits and integrating mindfulness practices into your routines

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Derek Hill Derek Hill

The Mindful Leader’s Attitudes

Seeking your leadership edge? Discover the 8 fundamental attitudes of mindfulness which distinguish purpose-driven leaders from the rest. Learn the qualities and behaviours needed to balance business needs, with being present for others. How to cultivate trust, acceptance and patience and role model these qualities for those you lead. Expressing gratitude to rewire for positivity and resilience and letting go of judgments to enjoy a more balanced persepective in life.

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Derek Hill Derek Hill

The A-Zen of Living Mindfully

Discover a letter by letter guide to Living Mindfully, in “The A-Zen of Living Mindfully”, exploring attitudes of Mindfulness, meditation, reflection and guiding intentions, to help you live a more conscious, happiness and health filled life.

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Derek Hill Derek Hill

Waves of Transformation: Mindful Stress Management (free) courses, tools & guides

We can't end Stress! But we can learn powerful mindfulness practices and healthy habit building behaviours, to transform our relationship with Stress. Waking Waves is delighted to share our collection of free Mindfulness and Stress Management courses, premium wellbeing guides, tools and meditation resources.

These are all free and designed to help you find more calm, lowers your stress and anxiety levels and help prevent Burnout. The health and wellbeing transformation you’ve been waiting for.

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Derek Hill Derek Hill

12 Days of Festive Calm and Tranquility

Discover mindful calm, tranquility and a welcome break from frantic festivities with Waking Wave’s 12 Days of Mindfulness.

From a STOP practice on Day 1 , lifelong inspiring quotes and the wonders of box breathing to weekly meditations, gifts of gratitude and mindful intentions, we’ve got it all wrapped up for a low stress, high relaxations holiday season

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Derek Hill Derek Hill

Brief History of Stress

Embark on a 600 million-year journey through the evolution of stress. Understand its impact on our health, brain development, society, and our modern day wellbeing

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Derek Hill Derek Hill

Fill the gaps in your Mindful Resume

Uncover the gaps in your Mindful Resume and learn the life skills and life-changing achievements you really need: from stress management and regulating emotions, to reducing anxious overthinking and burnout preventing habits. You’ll revisit the Mindful Attitudes you might have missed in ‘School’ and pick up ‘certifications’ to help you build empathetic and compassion-filled relationships. A resume you’ll need your Beginner’s Mind for, with Waking Waves to support you.

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Derek Hill Derek Hill

The 5-step checklist to Transform Your Relationship with Stress

Discover how you can transform your relationship with stress with our 5-step checklist. Learn how stress is a natural reaction to pressure, threat and difficulty in life. And the key steps we can take to self-assess, invest in self-care and build lifelong habits for greater stress resilience. But most important of all the mindful choices you can make to transform your relationship with Stress and the support Waking Waves provides to make this possible.

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Derek Hill Derek Hill

50 Mindfulness Paths to Presence

Discover your path to present moment awareness with the "50 Mindfulness Paths to Presence” guide. Understand the fundamentals of mindfulness, from postures and meditations practices to intentions and foundational attitudes. Begin your transformative journey within and be inspired daily with powerful breath and body practices to keep you emotionally balanced, focused and able to manage Stress.

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Derek Hill Derek Hill

The Mindful Leader’s Burnout Beating “Cheat Sheet”

A cheat sheet won’t end Burnout! But filling organisations with mindful leaders who champion stress awareness, balance business needs with ‘wellbeing protecting’ boundaries and introduce mindful intentions, attitudes and habits, puts us on the path to prevention. From stress types and models of stress to the impact on our health and performance, the Mindful Leader’s burnout Beating Cheat Sheet is packed full of inspiration.

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The Hidden Powers of Mindful Awareness

How can I change anything by sitting still in meditation? Whether you sit still or move in mindfulness, there’s a lot going on silently beneath the surface. Mindfulness not only silently transforms your brain but also develops key areas of awareness, crucial to your health and wellbeing. Explore the neurobiological secrets behind the five awareness skills, cultivated in mindfulness and their powerful impact on your mental, physical health and emotional wellbeing

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Derek Hill Derek Hill

The Mindful Game of Zen-ga

Need to find work-life balance? Build solid foundations of resilience and sustainable wellbeing with “The Mindful Game of Zen-ga”. Explore how different organisational cultures and expectations, can lead us to stress, anxiety and overwhelm and even burnout, if gone unmanaged. And how awareness, breathing practices, intentions and attitudes of mindfulness, can be the key to maintaining our stability, physical and mental health.

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The Circle of Compassion

Life’s struggles left you spinning? Discover your world of connection on the Circle of Compassion. Learn how compassion can be turned outwardly and inwardly to support physical, mental and emotional health. How cultivating this powerful emotional response, with mindfulness, can help alleviate stress and anxiety in life and rewire our brains for positivity and resilience. And by showing compassion towards others, foster a sense of belonging, trust, support and empathetic bonding.

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Getting in the zone on the Stress Performance Curve

Need to find flow? Get in the zone? Balancing our stress levels with pressure and workload is the key to productivity and healthy balance in work. Too much Stress and we burnout, too little and we are inactive or bored. Take these four crucial steps to find your goldilocks zone: building stress and self-awareness, regular stress assessment and effective mindfulness based stress management techniques

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The Carousel of Stress

Stress taking you for a ride? Why not take a spin on the “Carousel of Stress” and discover 95 eye-catching insights. Learn how stress impacts our physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing and lead to Burnout. How self-caring habits and stress interventions like Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, can provide powerful tools, resources and coping strategies too.

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Finding Wellbeing Balance in Times of Stress with Make-A-Wish

How we found balance in times of Stress at the Make-A-Wish “No Limits CEO and Chair Summit” in Utrecht. A morning plenary sharing the origins and impact of stress, from acute to chronic, which impact our performance, physical and emotional wellbeing and put us on a road to burnout. Interactive workshops giving practical tools and strategies to bring calm, focus and balance. So we respond, not just react to stress.

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The Wheel of Mindfulness

Not sure where to start in Mindfulness? Find your new beginning on “The Wheel of Mindfulness” and discover 88 inspiring ways to can find a life of greater happiness and wellbeing. Learn the attitudes, practices and benefits of mindfulness for your health and management of Stress. Discover guides and resources and the most common myths, along your journey too.

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6 Mindful Gifts of Gratitude

Got plenty of reasons to be grateful? Discover your “6 Mindful Gifts of Gratitude” to help you rewire your brain for positivity and build a greater sense of wellbeing and happiness. Learn how cultivating gratitude can lower stress levels, enhance emotional regulation, and build lasting resilience in life and work.

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