Last week I attended the annual School of Movement Medicine Long Dance as part of the practical team. We participate in a 72 hour ceremony to support our own health and wellbeing, the wellbeing of our families and local communities and the wider community of human beings that inhabit this beautiful Earth that we are… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Wherever You Go There You Are
First blog for while and still keeping it short. Since my last blog a few weeks ago I've moved onto a narrowboat. I'm still unpacking and sorting what's necessary and what's not. There's no room for the superfluous in a narrow boat! On Mondays in our Telegram group, there's always a invitation to create a… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: The Balance of Giving & Receiving
What has The Silent Revolution got to do with speaking up? One might think at first glance that the two are opposites. When we Meditate, yes we are silent in the sense that we are not talking externally, but anyone that Meditates knows that often, when we first close our eyes, it is not actually… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Speaking Up
Let's be honest about healthy boundaries... We all need them and most of us are absolutely shit at applying them, hence the need for self enquiry! And no, ghosting someone is not a healthy boundary, nor is building a Fort Knox either. Both are as equally unhealthy as not having any at all. Healthy boundaries… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Healthy Boundaries
I had the opportunity to listen to one of my Meditation teachers, Narain, share his Wisdom at the weekend. He said that over all his years of teaching Meditation, he observed in himself and others, the thing that caused the most suffering was us not accepting reality as it is. I concur. Whether it be… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Denial Creates Suffering
It's tempting when we are triggered to avoid, distract or rant our way through it. I've noticed a pattern of being triggered myself quite a lot in this last week and I've had many opportunities to see underlying patterns and to rewrite the ending. Anyone else? From https://www.betterup.com/blog/triggers (worth a read if you are new… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Responding To Triggers
I'm having one of those days where Brian (aka my brain) has literally presented me with a thousand things that could be written in this blog, so I've given him the day off and let my Heart Word for the day, which is "Play", lead the way. To be honest, I haven't been feeling very… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: The Spirit Of Play
I'm writing a book. I have a deadline for the proposal. True to ADHD predictability, it's been a ADHD paralysis time warp city, "f*ck where did the last three months go", last minute dot com, deadline approaching faster than a bullet train kind of week. Pressure has significantly built now, enough to create a burst… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Overcoming Fear
Sometimes life gets a bit serious. Worries plague our mind and we can't see beyond them. In prolonged states of stress it's easy to forget what lights us up, what brings us Joy and to prioritise what gives us the inner fuel to carry on. For me that's my Meditation practice, music and dance, of… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: What Lights You Up?
If you find yourself over-thinking your Meditation practice, it's time to come back to basics. The basic mechanics of Meditation are: Your mind drifts into unconscious thinking You notice you are thinking You come back to the Present moment You don't just do this once and not ever have a thought again. Sorry if you… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Back To Basics
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