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 …
Zooming in Cut through the narrative of an unpleasant experience by dropping into the felt sense of the body. Really zoom in on how the unpleasant experience is experienced in the body. Notice the raw, immediate physical sensations like tightness, warmth, pressure, heaviness, hardness, softness, tingling etc. Although most of us experience our lives from …
Mindfulness practice is about ‘being aware’. But what is awareness? Understanding the nature and mechanics of awareness is one of the best tools in developing our practice… Read more
As meditators we don’t need to place great emphasis on the changing weather of the mind, sometimes it is delightful, sometimes it is less so, but showing up again and again we learn to trust the process, no matter the weather.… Read more
Often when we start meditating we think that during meditation there are some experiences we should be having and others that we should not be having… Read more
In our mindfulness practice, when we pay attention to our minds we see that we are constantly framing, interpreting and judging our experiences, events and other people in a certain light.