Alan Watts – 101 Quotes to Celebrate 101 Years of Influence
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Read More Alan Watts – 101 Quotes to Celebrate 101 Years of InfluenceNew Year, new resolutions and tips on how not to fail
“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ” ― Anaïs Nin This blog was originally going to be called “New Year, Old Habits, New Habits, New Beginnings” but I realised two things. Firstly, […]
Read More New Year, new resolutions and tips on how not to failA year of Mindfulness and its impact
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.” ― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking As this year races towards its conclusion, I am taking some well earned time away from the normal work world to spend time with my family and friends. At the same time, I am reflecting on what a year […]
Read More A year of Mindfulness and its impactLife stress bubbles
“Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.” ― Adam Lindsay Gordon The lead up to Christmas is always a stressful time. The preparation for this single day of the year eclipses almost every other life event, even more so as it occurs every […]
Read More Life stress bubblesMindfulness apps and Digital Therapy technology
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller I came to Mindfulness through reading a book – “Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world by Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman”. Others […]
Read More Mindfulness apps and Digital Therapy technologyWhat is it like growing up as a 21st century teenager
“You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten […]
Read More What is it like growing up as a 21st century teenagerThe illusion of Time
“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize […]
Read More The illusion of TimeThe Heart of Meditation is a Journey
The heart of meditation is a journey. We are brought through doorways beyond our imagination. Letting Go, Letting Be, Receiving. The silence of our heart is the balance to the busy demanding world we live in. This is why so many people are hungry for and enjoying the heart of meditation. The unending presence we […]
Read More The Heart of Meditation is a JourneyMindfulness in everyday life
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”― Blaise Pascal, Pensées I listened to a talk given by Jon Kabat-Zinn recently, as part of the Mindfulness Summit [I enclose a link at the end of this article]. He was talking about the practice of mindfulness, not the sitting […]
Read More Mindfulness in everyday lifeFirst impressions are all in the mind – Unconscious Bias
“It’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy As part of a company wide program on corporate social responsibility, one of the major focuses is to recognise and try to manage the fact that we tend to make snap judgements of people and […]
Read More First impressions are all in the mind – Unconscious Bias
Martin Summerhayes 