Challenge, overwhelm and creativity
Challenges are inevitable. Whether they detract from, or contribute to, our health and happiness depends on a few things.
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First world problems, when things go wrong and poisonous anger
Life will never be totally problem free. There will be things that make you frustrated and angry. Here’s how to deal with your destructive emotions.
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Force or flow in life?
I’m not on holiday and I should be. Yet there’s a valuable lesson there about things that just won’t happen no matter how hard I push, try, or control.
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Thought can organise the world so well, you are no longer able to see it
Our minds directly shape our lives. Changing the mind is one thing to change our life; but when you go beyond the mind, you find a different level of living altogether.
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A Buddha’s focus and deep understanding – what would be the point for you?
The spiritual attainments of a Buddha may seem frivolities in the modern world; but undistracted focus and deep understanding are possibly even more valuable today than thousands of years ago.
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Difficulties in life
Life isn’t difficult. We make it difficult by the amount of resistance we bring to what we have to do.
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Rules for life
What are the rules that you can follow and be guaranteed of success in life? There’s no shortage of books and programmes suggesting various options. Ah, if only life was that simple.
Keep moving
We say we’d love to do this and that, to go there and experience that, to make a change somehow … but how often do we actually get down and put something into the calendar? Here’s an invitation to stop sleepwalking into a rut.
“I shall use my time.”
What do Epictetus and James Bond have in common?
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The thing you need to know about your mind in meditation
From an early age, we’re led to believe that more effort means more rewards. But in meditation and mindfulness it’s the direct opposite – more effort means less. Here’s how to get what you want from your practice completely effortlessly.
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