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

Your wake-up call for 2016

I invite you to join me for a year of adventure, where we stop operating on autopilot and start living a life of curiosity and joy.

Baie van ons voel ontevrede met ons lewe waarin ons slapend wakker is. Dit sluit dié van ons in wat maar voortbeur tot dié wat ten alle koste 'n poging aanwend om mense/dinge te beheer sodat die lewe glad verloop.

This year I am delighted to create a 10-month long experiment to break our routines! I will introduce the experiments one month at a time. Our first month’s experiments look like this:

• WEEK ONE I will use the HALT-technique:  pausing in stressful moments to check in and gauge whether I am Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired. If I am, I'll find a solution first (for myself and/or my kids!) before responding.

• WEEK TWO I will spend the first 10 minutes of every day outside.

• WEEK THREE I will take a cold(er) shower each day.

• WEEK FOUR I will tell one person per day what I love about them.

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"Reculer pour mieux sauter" – take a step back in order to leap higher!

According to statistics, most of us will fail our New Year’s resolutions. We’ll probably beat ourselves up for being lazy and undisciplined. But, with few exceptions, our New Year’s resolutions don’t fail because of laziness.

Hoekom wil ons nie verander nie?

Ons het kompeterende behoeftes en belangstellings. Terwyl een deel van ons doelstellings het vir persoonlike groei, het ’n ander deel vrae. Dit verg bewuswording!

This year, instead of being hard on ourselves, maybe we can have a little mindfulness and compassion for ourselves. Maybe we can embrace the part of us that wants to change and the part of us that is afraid to change. Maybe then, even our failed resolutions will be the beginning of something new and good and beautiful.

The French have a lovely expression that encapsulates the importance of calling on patience and restraint when we feel out of kilter, rather than bulldozing on. 


Join us in a 10-month long experiment to take a step back in order to leap higher! And tell us why you want to 'wake up" in 2016.

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The Complete Study Course follows a Mindfulness Approach.


It 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 learn!

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