Yesterday I did a three hour intro to meditation with some guys in the fitness industry. Everything from “why you should” to how to do it. I love this kind of thing – it’s a real challenge. Meditations got a skewed image, especially amongst active people. They just can’t see the point of sitting down
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Here I am, sitting at my kitchen table on a surprisingly sunny morning. Cup of coffee by my side, everyone is eating eggs. I’m writing first, eating later. Mornings like this are grand. What I love about my job is meeting people who want to live life a little bit differently. You see, even though
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Your biggest waste of time and energy? Wanting to be right. Like a vampire it sucks the life out of you. Getting into petty arguments about stuff. Insisting that you “know” best. Insisting that the other is wrong. And do you know what?
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The more I live and enquire into the conditions of my life, the more I realise the power of my choice. I used to feel subject to the comings and goings of the situations and the circumstances, the relationships and the possessions in my life. I would be affected by them in that I would
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I get excited when I get a chance to talk live. Words on paper (or computer screens) are one thing – But being able to help people face to face is what I love most. We are taught so many different things – but the biggest thing, the most important thing, the most CRUCIAL thing
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Very few people know how to win the inner game. We’re getting pretty good at the outer game. People seem to have that nailed down. “What” to do is getting more and more refined – in terms of goal setting, diet, exercise, in terms of teaching and learning skills, in terms of the practical. Unfortunately
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Everyone in any physical activity where the outcome – the result – is important to you knows the anxiety that comes with performance before a big event. It may be competitive – before a match or a race. It may be in the outdoors – like running a big rapid or climbing a rock face
Generally – unless you’re learning a new skill … Your body already knows what to do. That’s the whole purpose of practice, of training – is to come to a state where you can do something without thinking. Your best performances were when you let your body to what it needed to do. Simply.
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Everywhere I look I see published evidence of the benefits of meditation. It’s beginning to creep in everywhere, from some of the sports blogs that I regularly read to my wife’s fashion magazines. You might say it’s the new yoga. Remember when yoga was everywhere and every celebrity and their mother was doing it? Very
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How goes it? I’m sitting on a train to the lovely city of Stratford Upon Avon. I have a 4 day course in England’s most haunted hotel, or so they say. Been there before – I made the mistake of reading all about its various ghosts and presences just before trying to go to sleep
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