So – assuming you are in a relationship with a “significant” other, this Valentines will mean you are set for a day of goodness with your “fluffy bunny” or “snookums” or whatever pet name you have for them. If you are flying solo, so to speak, do not despair – it doesn’t matter. This will […]
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My time in Norway is at an end. I sit here in departures in the airport, sipping on coffee, watching people sit and walk and do their thing. Humanity is just the same, everywhere I go. Every class I teach, every talk I give, I try and ask people what the most important thing to
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I used to spend a lot of time in regret. As a percentage of my time it probably wasn’t a lot but it felt a lot because the things I regretted were important to me. The biggest thing I would regret is behaving in a way that felt rude, or impatient, or not kind or
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Someone asked me this the other day. It was a great question, actually. I’ve been doing this for so long that sometimes I forget that it’s become kinda natural part of my life. Meditation should be the simple practice of being aware, present and alive in this precise moment. Without judgement, evaluation, criticism, striving to
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I’m writing this to you from Bergen, Norway. It’s a spectacular place – my kind of town. Surrounded by water and by hills, wonderful. It’s a bit spooky though. All the people are spectacularly beautiful. It’s like they did away with the “not quite perfect” folk. Don’t worry, I won’t let them get me. But
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Study I just saw – on amount of happiness in relationship to the total time spent on a task (minus normal distractions such as phone calls, colleagues etc) The unhappiest people measured spent 53% of their time on task, while the happiest people spent 78% time on task. That means if you’re unhappy, for every
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Think for a moment – if you could walk into a shop and buy a day of utter contentment, how much would you pay? Maybe the store would have a selection of experiences you could shop: “A day of simple joy? Certainly sir”; “In love with everyone and everything? Coming right up”
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Your mind is like a little tin can you rattle around in, constantly. Stay with me … A little tin can that is filled with spikes and soft squishy padding in between (you get me metaphor? i.e. bad thoughts and good thoughts). You may have more or less spikes than the next person, but the
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So here I am this afternoon, writing today’s email yesterday. Amazin’ huh? Organised. I’ve moved through coffee time earlier this morning and am now into tea time – sipping a nice cuppa Yorkshire tea – with a view for my sofa where we are going to embark on a little Ascension meditation after I whip
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Just the other day I was giving a talk on meditation, and having a jolly time of it. A lady, who did have quite a severe countenance (who had confided in me earlier that she was practicing the meditation technique of another tradition), piped up, exclaiming: “WHY are you slouching?” I was tickled by this
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