Back in the day when my Ishayas’ Ascension meditation teacher had only a few students I would get the chance to talk to him by phone. This was awesome. A supremely wise expert, on tap. I remember, as is often the case with the advice of the wise, it took a while to filter in […]
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That title is a touch dramatic, isn’t it? But after talking with someone the other day, I realised an important point. One that is so obvious now, but perhaps isn’t that clear to many people. Now – I realise some of you are busy. I realise you sacrifice a lot already. I get that –
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One of the members of my Facebook group for my free 7 day mindfulness challenge said something there recently that is pure magic: “When you get present and aware, you realise that the small things are actually the big things”. That is SO true, and such a rewarding perspective. What a slice of wisdom (my favourite slice,
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Have you ever heard that expression “just let go”? Sometimes it’s helpful, sometimes it’s used like an attack “dude, just freakin’ let it go!”. How do you “let go”? Well – the theory and the practice is simple. Letting go is in a way distracting yourself from thinking so much a particular way.
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You can never have too much reminders or inspiration. I did a little webinar the other night for people who have already learnt the Ishayas’ Ascension meditation and one of the things that people were saying the morning after is how great they feel, what a difference a simple reminder makes. And it’s true …
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Lots of questions about purpose at the moment – I think it must be the moon or the alignment of the planets poking you or something. (Porpoise?) But it’s a great question: “What am I doing here?”, everyone asks it at some stage. Since I believe that what I’m doing right now IS my purpose,
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Reading a newspaper article this morning as I was sipping my coffee and feeding the toast/hummus/avocado machine that is Bubba (she’s a hipster babe, what can I do?), and I spluttered, a little. The article was about corporate mindfulness programmes to help workers deal with stress. It stated that corporate mindfulness was turning the workers
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Last time I talked about how “The Pause”. Gettit? The Pause has capitals for sure, because it’s a meaningful (and meaningless) moment or minutes where you just stop and do nothing. Where you collect yourself, where you break up the busy-ness and the haste and the “got to get things done” for a period of
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Ages ago I read of a group of Zen monks who would go through a very complicated set of chants and prayers every time they went through a doorway. “How bizarre”, I thought to myself, “Imagine if I did that every time I entered a room – it would take forever to get any where”
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Someone just asked me if meditation and mindfulness could help a bad back. She was saying that she thinks it’s caused by stress. And it could well do. I won’t make any promises but the thing is that your mind is at the core of everything you do. Stress and overwhelm and negativity sometimes means
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