Do you manage boxes or live a life?

“We put labels on boxes. All thoughts, all words are labels on boxes; therefore we feel we have to get everything boxed, and so we put ourselves in boxes. Everything is put in boxes, but actually everything in nature doesn’t go that way.” Alan Watts Someone challenged me the other day that I was living […]

An introduction to the Body Scan

If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down. – Ajahn Amaro This is one of the most challenging mindfulness practices for me, what is yours?? A body scan? What on earth is that you might ask. […]

An introduction to Walking Meditation

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend” ― Albert Camus What do you think about when you go for a walk? What an odd question to ask. But, hang on a moment. What do you really […]

An introduction to Sitting Meditation

“There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.” ― James Carroll We all like simple, don’t we? One of simplest and at the same time; most effective mindfulness practices is the Sitting Meditation. If you followed the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, […]

By the Sea

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.” ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening A quick question to ask you…. What did you do in August this year? The summer and August especially is a time for holidays and time by the sea. For me, being by the sea has always been part of my life. I […]

Everyday Mindfulness

“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.” ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday How do you practice everyday Mindfulness? I don’t mean the formal sitting still and in silence type of practice. Where you sit in a room on […]

Sounds and Thoughts

“This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.” ― Terry Pratchett You do it. I do it. We all do it. In fact, we all do it all the time without even realising it. Deleting sounds. Sound is one of key senses we have but we have developed the ability […]

Moments of Silence and Peace

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” ― Harvey Fierstein This week at work has been exceptionally busy, with meetings; deadlines and commitments that had to be met; and a major project coming to fruition. Outside of work; […]

A Pebble Meditation on a silent retreat

“We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” ― Forrest Curran, When is see that there is a silent retreat being offered I try to attend. Recently, a silent retreat day was planned at a small […]

The Divided Self

““All of us have two minds, a private one, which is usually strange, I guess, and symbolic, and a public one, a social one. Most of us stream back and forth between those two minds, drifting around in our private self and then coming forward into the public self whenever we need to. “ ― […]