Zen and the Art of Change
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies Earlier […]
Read More Mindfulness at work – how to practice?“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” ― […]
Read More 385 mindful people“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 […]
Read More Do you manage boxes or live a life?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. […]
Read More An introduction to the Body Scan“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 […]
Read More An introduction to Walking 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, […]
Read More An introduction to Sitting Meditation“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 […]
Read More By the Sea“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 […]
Read More Everyday Mindfulness“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You! This weekend I celebrated my birthday. Another year older, perhaps a little wiser, and definitely, my grateful. Grateful, you might ask? Yes. I have my health, I am […]
Read More Another year on….“I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.” ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning Please help me understand the impact of first impressions….. I am always amazed at what life’s twists and turns bring forth. A recent meeting completely threw me. Following a number of phone […]
Read More Passion and first visual impressions
Martin Summerhayes 