There are so many myths about, and poor teaching around, meditation, even experienced meditators can get tied up in knots. Here’s one of the central myths and how to avoid it.
Life is full of challenges. Some of these we choose, many we do not. But while we can’t choose the situation, we can always choose our attitude – and that makes all the difference.
We think we’re the only ones … when we see the lifestyle that everyone’s selling on social media, it can be simple arithmetic to think we’re the only ones not doing a very good job of life. Not true, and here’s why.
The last of our freedoms, Viktor Frankl noticed even in the hellhole of a Nazi concentration camp, cannot be taken from us – only given away. It’s always given mindlessly – we don’t realise we’re surrendering our true power. Claim your choice and it will change your life.
Slowing down to go faster … it seems counter-intuitive. But we’ve tried going faster and faster and all that happens is we get more and more lost. Take a chance on something else.
How do you make your mind a force for good in your life, not negativity and chaos? Learn how to change the game so you’re the master of your mind, not it the master of you.
Three particular bits of wisdom were once thought powerful enough to carve in stone so all the bright lights of the Ancient world has a chance to reflect on them. Maybe they’re still relevant to us today.
Life will change. It won’t be this way forever. But there is something within you that never changes. When you find that place, you have the ultimate refuge from all the storms of life.
Perhaps the fundamental lesson of life isn’t in how to remove challenges from life – but how to deal with the unexpected and unwelcome in a more and more skillful way. Here’s how.
We live busy lives, all of us. We don’t have a lot of time. But – you can make sure it’s Quality time. And I say you need to, otherwise life will just pass you by before you know it.
