Join me to get your weekly mindfulness practice every Sunday – starting 1st January 2012. Experience some new and creative ways of bringing mindfulness into your daily life.
Here’s a powerful mindfulness practice for the holiday season. It’s more difficult than you think….!
Once we start to develop a greater awareness of and sense of approach towards our experience, we will inevitably encounter feelings (in and out of meditation practice) that we are not so fond of:pain, fear, rejection, anger, sadness, jealousy to name a few of the usual suspects. When these less palatable experiences arise, the invitation …
I nearly hit a guy on a bicycle the other day with my car. I was indicating and taking the first exit left off a roundabout and this bicyclist shot past me on the inside lane attempting to go straight on and nearly ended up across my bonnet. I braked hard, he braked hard, we …
This practice of meditation can be a solitary affair. At some point or other we start to question the validity of what we are doing. The devil on our shoulder, the doubting thomas, the inner critic, they can all come knocking, finding some traction and a sympathetic ear. Isn’t there something better, more useful that …
However we sit, whenever we sit, the decision to take some time for ourselves, to soften with our own experience of being alive, deserves a measure of respect. Take some time, deliberation and care in the very act of taking your seat: settle into your posture, bringing awareness to the contact of your body with …
Thoughts on the groundswell of interest in the mindful, responsible, considerate and appropriate use of social media. This topic will be examined in the Wisdom 2.0 conference in Feb 2012
Welcome to Embrace, a blog all about mindfulness: how to engage with it, develop a relationship with it and get curious about how we can integrate the practice of mindfulness into our daily lives. This is also a community, a place where you can enquire about and find support for your practice with people of …