So maybe you sat down earlier today, possibly for your first ever meditation. You were full of good intentions, ready to get going on this amazing journey. You sat, and listened, and things were going well. …and then you remembered that email that you sent earlier, or that news article you read, or maybe a …
When anyone sits down to their daily practice, they’re not practicing meditation. Ok, they are. Sort of. But – the end game, as someone wise once said – isn’t to get better at meditation, it’s to get better at life… So when we sit, we’re practicing life, or if you like meditation in life, not meditation for …
We spend an awful lot of time being busy. And – although it’s not entirely a modern thing – our minds are arguably busier now than at any time in our histories. More distractions, more work, more gadgets, more things to do, more things pinging and twanging us with notifications… One of the huge benefits …
“As you go about your day, see if you can find brief moments to bring this kind of awareness to your experiences. It need take no longer than the space of an eye blink to puncture an ‘ordinary’ experience with clear seeing. Just remember that you are always confronted by consciousness and its contents, and …
If you’ve started a mediation practice you’ll now recognise that meditation is “simple but not easy”. You’ll also have hopefully started to get the intuition that it is worth sticking to this practice. The more this becomes a habit, the more it’ll stay with you during the day, and the more it stays with you …
The whole “beginner’s mind” concept applies to more than just your approach to meditation. It can also be used as a way of thinking about your daily life too. Let’s do a quick thing before we talk about this some more. Put down the gadget that you’re reading this on, and go walk across the …
When I’m not doing this, I run a little web agency, and it struck me recently as I was redoing my own website that you typically have to go through the process of breaking existing systems before you can rebuild them into something better.
I have been working with a thought in my recent practice which I’ve found very helpful. It isn’t an original thought – but it is simply to be with this moment and allow whatever is to be. The focus can be pulled on this one from several different directions – from a simple point of …
I’m just in the process of recovering from what appears to be a nasty virus. To the best of my knowledge I haven’t had Covid, but all the symptoms of whatever-this-is seem very much like Long Covid – tiredness, insomnia, aches and pains, terrible brain fog, etc. I’m someone who suffers from occasional depressive episodes. …