The mission of Peer 2 Peer Mindfulness CIC Ltd is to provide free of charge, high quality Mindfulness courses to adults in the Scottish Borders region who may not have the financial means to be able to obtain the benefits a mindfulness course can provide.

With your vote we will have an opportunity to receive a financial grant from the Aviva Community Fund which will ensure the provision of our free mindfulness courses in the community during 2019.

The aim of the Mindfulness Living Courses delivered by Peer 2 Peer Mindfulness CIC is to enable and nurture a growing community of secular mindfulness practitioners from all walks of life by inspiring people to live and work according to mindfulness principles, for the sustained well-being of the Scottish Borders and society as a whole.

The impact of the project will be to empower under-served individuals through learning mindfulness skills. This will bring them increased self-awareness, confidence, stress reduction and emotional resilience, leading to an increased likelihood of sustained well-being. Because mindfulness encourages healthy lifestyles, it helps build community and family cohesion. Mindfulness can support the ability to cope and respond in a more beneficial way in communication, relationships, and stressful situations.

Testimonial from 'N' in Hawick - "The 8-week Peer 2 Peer Mindfulness course provided me with a safe place to learn to be with stressful thoughts and emotions by living in the present moment instead of anxiously worrying about things in my life. I have now successfully returned to full time employment and am enjoying life as a mum for the first time"

Please vote HERE now and help us continue bringing mindfulness to your community.

Thank you. We are very grateful for your support.

​I make an intention to meditate (in silence) each morning among nature and most days I am joined at my side by my horse or the local wildlife (pigeon, yellowhammer, butterfly, mole).
Today it was a Bee who joined me and who felt so safe in the energy of my meditation place that it decided it could take the time to have a 'mindful' pollen meal.
Bees are incredibly intelligent and complex creatures, and we, as humans, can learn much from spending time with them.
Interacting with bees is a humbling experience - as you watch them you begin to really understand what a 'sense of community' is in a whole new way. 
They are an excellent model for our communal relationships; where individuals work together to serve a single unit of communal consciousness for the benefit of all beings.
Bees also respond greatly to the energies that we put out. As any seasoned beekeeper will tell you, if you have positive thoughts and intentions, the bees will find a harmony with you - and you with them.
This is the purpose of practicing mindfulness in your life - to find a natural balance and harmony with all of nature, and the human world around you.
Can you make an intention to 'Bee' Mindful in your life this weekend?

As Dalai Lama XIV once said, “Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.”

The sages of mindfulness all talk of three core elements of mindfulness; teaching gleaned from the wisdom of their heart, and shared in hope of us obtaining freedom from suffering for all living beings:
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​Be Patient
Being patient is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one we have in mind.

Part of having a healthy relationship with ourselves means being patient through our inevitable and unavoidable phases of growth and personal evolution. Getting what we think we need right away doesn’t always help us grow as much as learning to trust and wait for good things to happen in their natural time.

Everything comes to us in the right moment. Remember that sometimes not getting what we want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Be Kind
Kindness does not have to mean life-changing actions of charity or selflessness – instead, we can adopt a humble spirit of helpfulness in each small action that we do. Simply considering the needs of others as we move through the world can make a huge difference in our lives.

Be Compassionate
When we realise how deeply our lives are connected to those around us, we also realise that our happiness is not dependent on ourselves alone, but rather on a shared, positive, and healthy bond with everyone we interact with each day.

So, if we want to be happy, we can practice compassion and, if we want others to be happy, we can practice compassion.
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Question for today - Can we allow further growth in our lives to emerge through learning to be more patient, compassionate and kind to ourselves, and to others?

One way of practicing mindfulness is to pay attention to the activity of walking, and to turn this into a mindfulness practice or meditation. 
Mindfulness walking is a practice of presence that you can bring alive in all kinds of settings and activities.
Mindfulness walking meditation can be particularly valuable for helping you to cultivate an awareness of the embodied experience in each moment, allowing you to bring the body, heart, and mind together as you move through life.

When we practice mindfulness walking meditation, we do not need to be going anywhere, and it can be helpful to let go of any sense of a destination or a purpose to the walking. 
The intention of walking meditation is just to walk!

When practicing mindfulness walking meditation we practice bringing awareness to the whole experience of walking: the lifting and placing of the feet, the sensations of the soles of the feet touching the ground, with shifting sensations of pressure and touch; the shift in balance of the body from one side to the next; the movements throughout the whole body as we move; the flowing of the breath.

Mindfulness walking meditation is a key mindfulness practice which helps us to engage fully with our lives. 
It is a practice which connects us to ourselves, to nature, to each other and to all of life.
People usually consider walking on water, or on thin air a miracle. But the real miracle is not to walk either on water, or in thin air, but to walk on earth.
Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All this is a miracle.

Peer 2 Peer Mindfulness regularly organises mindfulness walks in the beautiful Scottish Borders. You can find out the dates of our mindfulness walks and book a place on one by visiting our events calendar.