Take a raisin in your hand and look at it as if you’ve never seen one before. Smell the raisin, observe what feelings and thoughts it evokes inside you. Then describe what it looks like. We’re not done yet. This mental health exercise – involving nothing more than your mind and a simple raisin – has plenty more ways it can help us to slow down our thoughts and ground us in the here and now. The mindfulness movement has been booming for years now, not least because of the amount of information bombarding us on screens and the increasing need to be available at all times. In times of stress and …