“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu You would think I had learned by now, wouldn’t you? You would think I had learned how much suffering I cause myself…
This weekend I was away with a friend and we had an interesting discussion about the amount of free will that we are able to exercise in our day to day lives. My feeling is that we think we exercise far more free will than we actually do and that the main advantage of training…
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This week my own challenge is to try to focus. I have an important document to write by next week. And I have this blog to write. I was going to write this blog about the document called “Initial Thoughts” I have to write next week because I thought it might help me galvanise my…
I was teaching a compassion retreat last week with Choden for the cohort of students on our new Masters degree program. This program is in teaching mindfulness and compassion and we partner with the University of the West of Scotland to deliver it. During the retreat we were asked about the evidence base for compassionate…
Last week I was tutoring with Choden on the Level 2 Compassion Retreat. Whilst planning for one of my sessions – Sympathetic Joy – I recognised that I had experienced the total opposite. Instead of rejoicing in others joy I found myself having negative feelings about others. The feeling I had has a word –…
This week behind the scenes basics from the MBLC Mindfulness Based Living Course – an overview from the perspective of a trainee teacher i.e. me. (Reluctant and terrified trainee teacher). There are three ways to qualify as Ready to Teach the MBLC. A: MIndfulness Level 1 > Teacher Training Level 1 ( 2 weekends) >…
TRAINING TO TEACH MINDFULNESS – THE MBLC RETREAT I don’t really want to be a teacher, I said, as I applied for the course. Fear was pulling me back, but something stronger was pulling me – compassion to share all this with others. Facing fears in the MBLC Teaching retreat, accepting, meeting and looking deeply…
In my blog last week I introduced research into loving kindness meditation by exploring some systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the body of research evaluating loving kindness meditation interventions. Please refer to that blog as an introduction to this blog. In particular, it describes what loving kindness meditation is, how it differs from compassion meditation…