Why Mindfulness Matters?

Mindfulness helps us to deliberately pay attention to something and create greater acceptance of our world “as it is”. Consistently research points to decreasing mental health across and the Covid pandemic has accelerated this decline. Mindfulness creates space to break the “vicious neural cycle” (Rita Carter, 2010) of our amygdala, prefrontal lobe, anterior cingulate and thalamus. By giving our minds a pause, we not only stop the damage, but we start to create new helpful and healthy neural pathways increasing our brain plasticity. This gives us immediate and long term health benefits including helping us to be more in control of our reactions.

 

Explore and walk helps participants to experience mindfulness and create sustainable habits through increased awareness. The effect is to increase individual and collective resources and resilience through being more present.