This course is part of the Lifestyle and Recovery series. Living mindfully can be life enhancing and can help you find the best way to live your life. It can reduce feelings of stress and depression and increase your sense of wellbeing. In this course we will look at:
This course is made up of eight sections. This course will take approximately sixty to ninety minutes to complete. This timing will depend on how fast you read and how long you spend on the reflective questions. You do not need to complete the whole course in one go. If you leave and come back to the course, it will remember where you got up to.
If you would like to get a certificate for this course, you must mark each page complete. You can do this by pressing the ‘mark complete’ button at the bottom of each page.
This course is for education and information only. It does not provide therapy, medical advice, or professional support. If you need crisis support, please contact local mental health services, your GP or telephone 111 or the emergency services.
Course updated: March 2025
Below are a few website resources for further information about mindfulness.
The NHS website has lots of information on mindfulness on their website. The following article includes information on how mindfulness benefits wellbeing, ways to be more mindful and different mindfulness practices - Mindfulness (nhs.uk) (opens in a new tab)
The Mindful.org website has lots of answers to questions that a person who is wanting to start practising mindfulness may have. It also has many guided meditation audios available for free - Getting Started with Mindfulness - Mindful They also have lots of videos available on their Mindful YouTube channel (opens in a new tab)
YouTube has lots of free meditations that you could utilise. Doing a search for the type of mindful activity that you would like to try is therefore likely to bring up many results. For example you could search loving kindness meditation, mindful eating or mindful walking.