Concentration and Inquiry It is essential that you cultivate together and in harmony these twin elements of concentration and inquiry. Concentration will bring stability, stillness, and spaciousness; inquiry will bring alertness, vividness, brightness, and clarity. Combined, they will help you to develop creative awareness, an ability to bring a meditative mind to all aspects of […]
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Always gratifying when science seems to kind of catch up & verify what we feel we already know; glad too that science does not always needed to lead the way. Thanks – useful article which I’ll re-post on my mindfulness suffolk FB page – makes a lot of sense as to why the ‘bodyscan’ is […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 29th, 2014 | Comments Off on How / where are you feeling?
Often a difficult time of year for ‘returning students’ – this video may be of interest to you or someone you know? http://www.easeap.com/videos/college/college.html
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 13th, 2014 | Comments Off on Mindfulness for College students
We all suffer the limitations of our humanness: not just our aches and pains but our fear, our anger, our pettiness, our grief. Fact is, we do practice being human in every waking moment. And the more mindfully we practice, the more often our conflicts dissolve, the more easily we create new possibilities for relationship and community. […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 10th, 2014 | Comments Off on “Learning to Fall”
Well, I’ve had my call – apparently TODAY is going to be Blue Monday – seems a little later this year? Have we collectively become slightly more resilient? Or is it linked to changing weather patterns? Anyhow I’m due to discuss again this year on Radio Suffolk www.bbc.co.uk/radiosuffolk/on-air in around 30 mins. We got off […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on December 10th, 2013 | Comments Off on It’s here / and NOW! – Blue Monday
Phew – pardon this brief plethora of posting; I’ve just mastered the technicalities of posting from my web-page blog and simultaneously to facebook page and twitter (I think?) There have been moments over the last week of software tinkering and copy/pasting licence and security codes between social network sites when mindless frustration & grim relentlessness […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on November 11th, 2013 | Comments Off on Celebrating an achievement
It is often when playing football with my son that I remember to do this. Frequently, I have had to have been extricated from my somewhat grim engagement with the “oughts’, ‘shoulds’, and ‘have to’s’ of life at my office computer. A slow, somewhat creaky jog down the back lane from our house to the […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on November 8th, 2013 | Comments Off on Counting your blessings
Harnessing Difficult Situations Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter. – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, “Teachings on the Nature of Mind and Practice” Hope this is as timely for you as me; I’d just stood up […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on May 30th, 2013 | Comments Off on Harnessing Difficult Situations – mindfulness of the messiness of life
I’ve been working with a few clients recently on the theme of forgiveness; it’s of primary importance to establish a) that it’snot about condoning past behaviours of others, and b) that it’s not about letting ‘them’ off the hook, it’s about letting “you” off the hook, and c) – more humorously yet just as ‘spot […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 13th, 2013 | Comments Off on Forgiveness
People often question about when is the best time to practice, or for how often? Here’s a good suggestion: Simple Practice It’s definitely the case that we can practice at any given moment. We can always try a little more to be kind, to be compassionate and be careful about what we do and say. […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 12th, 2013 | Comments Off on when to practice?
