The 2016-adventure

Your wake-up call for the rest of 2016

I invite you to join me for the second part of the year. We are on an adventure where we stop operating on autopilot and start living a life of curiosity and joy.

The new fun activities are:

• WEEK ONE

Whether I drink tea or coffee I want to make it a ritual: I want to be aware of the smell, the taste, the temperature and even where it comes from and what it took for me to be able to enjoy it. Savouring the moment and realising when my mind has wandered.

• WEEK TWO

How will it feel to reduce the speed of my movements, for brief periods in the day?

• WEEK THREE

I want to play with visualisation from time to time. I am going to imagine the sun’s warm and bright rays shining down into my body. I want to feel it filling my body from the toes upwards as if it was a container. As the “liquid sunlight fills me up” I sense all tension melting away in my body.

• WEEK FOUR

When I brush my teeth, I want to make it an exercise in mindfulness. Rather than simply thinking about stuff, direct my attention to the physical sensations, the smells and the taste.

Contact Lucia Brand
0827824747

The 2016-adventure

The 2016-adventure continues...

Thank you for joining this adventure (If you have not done so yet, it is not too late to start).
Welcome to a journey on how to break habits. Let us stop operating on autopilot and start living a life of joy and curiosity!

There are many reasons why you would want to 'wake up'. Feel free to share the reason(s) and comment(s) about your journey by clicking on 'No comments:' below. You may influence the flow of this adventure and it may be to your benefit!

I will introduce the new experiments for the following 4 weeks:

• WEEK ONE I want to meditate for 10 minutes every morning for at least a week.

• WEEK TWO I want to let my mind wander, for 5 minutes, or for an afternoon or a weekend.

• WEEK THREE I want at least one fun activity per day.

• WEEK FOUR I want to wear a different piece of jewellery each day, like a watch, ankle bracelet or rings (even on my toes!).

You might like some of our experiments, like the 10-minute meditation (click, to see an animation) and want to incorporate it into your life or another new productive habit. You might want to form a good study habit or change something that doesn't work.

If so, here are some guidelines to help you form a new good habit:

Do the new action at the same time of the day (and possibly, at the same location). Take note that some days it might be easier than on other days, very much like surfing or swimming on a wave in the ocean. So stay with the ups and downs, without judgment.

1. Your cue to do the activity (to study for example) needs a bit of willpower to follow through. Your reaction to it is what counts, like starting a study session immediately (setting a timer and focusing) and resisting the urge to procrastinate by asking, for instance, "Do I need to check my WhatsApp messages now?".
2. Make your routine uninterrupted 25-minute focused work sessions, with 5-minute breaks.
3. Reward yourself by for example having a cup of tea or watering your pot plants.
4. A belief that you ARE capable of doing what needs to be done is vital. What other beliefs might be holding you back?


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I provide a Complete Study Course to students and/or learners. We follow a Mindfulness Approach learning how to study and we form good study habits.

The Course is meant to give you or your children practical insight on how to learn more effectively and with less frustration. The lessons in this course can help in learning many different subjects and skills. Whether you love language or math, music or physics or history, you will have a lot of fun, and learn a LOT about how to study!

Contact Details
082 782 4747
luciabrand@cybersmart.co.za