Becci Godfrey Wellness

01/11/2026

Is perfectionism helpful? This is the topic of my latest newsletter - you might be surprised at the findings!

12/10/2026

Why is meditation a core part of Reiki? Discover how a calm, clear mind helps practitioners be more present, focused and effective during treatments. Read the full post for easy tips to bring meditation into your Reiki practice and deepen your sessions. https://wix.to/bcV41m0

When Mikao Usui, the founder of the practice we call Reiki, put together a curriculum for students, it included meditation as a core necessity, but why?Usui knew from his years studying different spiritual practices and his own enlightenment process that things like having a clear mind, being an emp...

02/10/2026

Following nature's lead - why rebirth is a chance to practice being present and this month's wellness opportunities.

Dear wellness friends, Is the image above green enough for you? It's not a screenshot from a Windows laptop but the view from my garden. After a long, dry summer that produced brown fields and drought stricken trees, the rain came and nature replenished itself and returned with renewed vitality. You...

25/09/2026

I live near Gatwick, and for that reason I must have hundreds of planes fly through our skyline a day.

It got me thinking, it's a lot like thoughts. Each plane (or helicopter, Chinook, or looping spitfire for that matter) is like an individual thought. They fly through the sky and leave. The sky is permanent, the helicopter is not.

But here's where it gets really interesting, for the most part I pay very little attention to the planes. I may know they are there, I may even stop and observe them, I definitely paid attention when the air ambulance landed next door - but then I move on to the next thing and forget about them. They are temporary and my awareness of them is also.

However, there are two reasons we may not be so temporary with our awareness and that is when:

1) aircraft is a special interest of ours. We may go look up additional details, learn about it's flight path, range abilities and intended purpose.

2) we've an associated unresolved experience with aircraft and we go into fight, flight or freeze based on our thoughts about the aircraft. Common examples are rumination, trying to change the situation, trying to avoid future situations, distracting ourselves - the list is endless.

My point is, it's our relationship to our thoughts (the aircraft) that's an issue for us, not necessarily the thought itself. I have a pretty neutral relationship to the aircraft in our sky. Sometimes I'm like, oh wow, that's beautiful. Other times I'm like, grrr, be quiet! For the most part though, I'm ambivalent and accept why they are there.

Want to know how to do that with your thoughts, even the tricky ones? Give me a call.

24/09/2026

Today I attended the Crowborough Connections Business Fair. A lovely mix of people making meaningful connections with all sorts of local businesses.

It was great to talk with a number of coaches in a range of niches. There was Grief Coaching, Health Coaching and coaching to help with your dog's health and wellbeing.

If you're scratching your head and wondering why we need all these niche coaching approaches, think of coaching as a literal coach that gets you from A to B.

Wouldn't you prefer to have a specialist in a particular sector to coach you through bereavement, mobility issues or dog behavioural issues? I know I would.

Coaches don't fix you, they help you unlock your existing potential.

If you have historic trauma that is causing you to be unwell, you need a therapist.

If you want to lean on someone's expertise, you need a mentor.

If you need someone to oversee what you're doing, you need a supervisor.

But if you want to solve your issues yourself with some expert guidance, I would recommend a coach.

A coach will help you look within, think creatively and look beyond the problem to the solution.

As a coachee said to me recently, "I'm answering my own questions!" "Brilliant", I said, "now you are beginning to understand coaching."

What's the most niche type of you have experienced?

P.S. my coaching is around calming the nervous system.

15/09/2026

Last night the meditation group worked on the topic of our inner critic. This isn't just the voice that criticises ourselves but the thoughts we listen and respond to that is critical about others, our environment and situations.

The group were invited through a guided meditation to think of parts of their bodies, their behaviours, relationships, environment and circumstances they criticise and in turn praise, thank, love and be compassionate for them. The group was also invited to sit quietly and observe their critical thoughts, not engage, and let them pass on by.

Every critical thoughts that passes through our body has a physiological impact, creating stress and reducing our experience of joy. Praise, gratitude, love and compassion instead helps us to counterbalance negativity with openness and acceptance.

A healthy body requires a healthy mental environment. My invitation to you this week is to drop the inner critic and be kind, loving and grateful instead.
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Want to be part of a kind and loving community? The Monday night meditation group meets online every Monday at 8.15pm (UK time). It welcomes people from all walks of life and all stages of their personal development. Each week we cover a new topic such as compassion, relaxation or being present, and utilise different meditation techniques to experience more calm. If you have experience in meditation and are looking for a supportive community to be involved with from the comfort of home, please get in touch!

04/09/2026

My insights into why sometimes we feel things we don't recognise as our own, my September top tip to deal with it and the latest Becci Godfrey Wellness dates.

Dear wellness friends, Welcome to the September edition of the Becci Godfrey Wellness newsletter, I trust you are well? The intense summer in the UK has ended and we are experiencing a cooler spell. Warm enough for me to be outside writing this with horses in the background, but no so hot that I'm o...

17/08/2026

A student introduced me to this today. It's a great crossover between the Reiki journey I invite people to go on and the Mind Detox coaching I provide. Which of these could you do with addressing?

05/08/2026

I was reflecting today on the summer we've had this year in the UK and how little rain we've had. I LOVE a summer's day, but I won't lie, I suspect I've found the constant sun and no rain a bit of a challenge.

It got me thinking about how there are years when I'd love a summer's day like today and then there's this year when I've had so many of them, I'd forgotten what a blessing they are.

I chuckled at my own inability to be grateful.

This made me reflect on how often we find fault with things. We're either too hot or too cold, life's too boring or too demanding, we're either too busy or not busy enough, we have more than we know what to do with or we don't have enough.

Our minds can be very black or white in their interpretation. This interpretation can make us feel happy because we've decided things are going well, or sad that they aren't.

Seeing as the most common choice is to find fault with life, I came to see how it would be easy to go a whole lifetime finding fault with the world. Then before you know it, you're at your final days and you realise that your life was one of misery, judgement and complaint and all you ever wanted was to feel good!

Gratitude is the antidote. When we are grateful we are neither happy nor sad - we're in a middle place of acceptance.

Gratitude is a barometer of our level of presence. When we're judging and complaining we're in the future and past, but when we're grateful we are fully present. It's why Mikao Usui, the founder of Usui Reiki Ryoho, put gratitude in his precepts for mind body health - he considered it to be extremely important.

28/06/2026

An absolutely stunning day at Katharine Jennings Fine Art Studios and Coffee House doing a Vision Board Workshop. Such a lovely, supportive group.
I trust everyone's hopes and dreams come true! 🪄✨