Pat Divilly: How 2022 will be the year to slow down

Pat Divilly’s new book is about learning to slow down and silence your mind, he speaks to Jen Stevens about finding quiet in a busy world

Pat Divilly: "Obviously eight weeks is not going to change everything, but it's encouraging a practice and talking about mental and emotional fitness in the same way we look after physical fitness." Pic: Marc O'Sullivan

They say that everything is a habit. What we eat, what we buy and how we do most of our daily tasks are entrenched in the habitual.

Many of us have seen that play out when we try to start a new fitness regime. If we are able to keep up the training past the initial ‘this is too hard, I hate this’ phase we manage to keep going. To make it part of our lives. A habit. More than this, those of us who manage to be kind to ourselves in the effort of starting something new and sometimes hard are even more likely to succeed.