Watch: 'Time and space'
Mindfulness videos for nursing staff
Practice mindfulness and improve your wellbeing with our 'time and space' video series.
Each of the six video covers a different stage of the day, from starting out to arriving home. Each video provides practical mindfulness techniques for nursing staff to put into practice throughout your day.
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Step 1: Starting your day
This first video will encourage you to see that the way in which you enter your waking experience can influence the day ahead.
In this video we help bring attention to the moment from the minute you wake.
Step 2: The journey to work
The second video invites you to experience your journey as a transitional space through the senses.
Connect with this time as a way of moving away and letting go of one area of your life and coming towards another.
Step 3: Arriving at work
The third video helps you pay attention to the start of your working day, be present to your surroundings and colleagues and to perhaps place an intention for the working day ahead.
Step 4: Leaving work and letting go
This fourth video encourages you to think about how you wish to leave work, to help you notice how you prepare to leave.
Be with your experience using your senses to help you connect with the present moment.
Step 5: The journey home
This penultimate video invites you to allow your journey home to give you distance, not only geographically, but also emotionally and intellectually.
Be with your whole experience as it arises.
Step 6: Arriving home
The last video encourages you to reflect on what arriving home means to you.
Use the three step breathing space to help you arrive in the moment ready to be with all that is familiar to you and observe what you notice about arriving home.
Putting technique into practice
Paul Hanna (Head of Nursing at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board) talks to Paul McAleer (Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast) about how he put these techniques into practice to cope with the pressures of illness and work.
