Trying to shove undesirable thought patterns away and be 24/7 Stepford-wife sunshiny doesn’t work. It makes them bigger and badder in our heads, ultimately. But naming, detaching and using mindfulness-based meditation means we don’t become pushed around by our minds. We gain space within them. Mindfulness gives us what I like to call, the ‘gift of the golden pause’. In which we can decide how to react, if at all.
