Meditation has been part of my daily life for decades but I hadn’t run a regular meditation group since I moved to Bayview 20 years ago, but being in lockdown over last Christmas motivated me to meet more locals so, at the beginning of the year I decided to set up a local meditation group. […]
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Have you ever experienced those times when you don’t have to do anything out of the ordinary and life just flows? I think most of us have at times and for me it always occurs when I pause regularly and listen to my heart, because living in the flow is a practice in mindfulness. There
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LIVE MINDFULLY I had just finished putting my grocery bags into my trolley and was moving around to pay the cashier when the woman behind me stepped in front of me and went into a long explanation, lasting several minutes, of how she wanted the cashier to put her shopping into her bags. As minutes
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I am fascinated by equine therapy, which is rapidly growing in popularity, and I knew I had to experience it for myself. Equine therapy is different to traditional therapy in that it’s non-verbal. If you get release from talking about your problems, you won’t get it from this sort of therapy. But if you are
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A martial artist once asked Bruce Lee, to teach him all that he knew about martial arts. Bruce held up two cups both filled with liquid and said, “The first cup represents all of your knowledge about martial arts. The second cup represents all of my knowledge about martial arts. If you want to fill your
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Mindful listening is a form of deep listening which encompasses listening with our whole body. Many of us, without realising it, don’t listen fully. We tend to think about what we are going to say next. We make judgements. We offer solutions. And sometimes we try to divert the conversation onto something we want to
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Borders Books are an example of a company who did not embrace change. They wanted to create superstores and they had an amazing model, but they didn’t pay enough attention to the effect that the Internet and digital books would have on their business. They started an online store but after a while felt it
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Ever since Ken Keyes Jr wrote his book, The Hundredth Monkey, the theory this book is based on, has been criticised as being incomplete and inaccurate. The premise of this book is that a small number of people, just 2% of the population thinking and acting in the same way can change mass consciousness. In
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Mindfulness is re-training the mind to respond in a different way and this is something we all need to learn as stress affects us all. Psychologists used to say that the most common causes of stress were major life events such as: the loss of a job, major financial problems, marriage break down, moving house
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While travelling though England a couple of years ago I came across forest bathing. Forest bathing is the practice of walking mindfully amongst trees and there is a growing body of evidence to demonstrate that physical and emotional benefits that can be gained from doing this. It has been predicted that this practice will be
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