Finding Equanimity
I like the following definition of equanimity which I use in our compassion training: “A warm engagement with the world without being troubled by it.” The definition needs some unpacking as some of the things…
Mindfully Invisible
I seem quite far removed from a ‘mindfully invisible’ nature experience last weekend whilst writing this in a coffee house at Stockholm airport. However, writing whilst travelling seems to be a common theme for mine…
Transformational Masters
Heather Regan-Addis, lead tutor, author and head of the Mindfulness Association, shares her experience whilst teaching students studying the MSc Studies in Mindfulness on their retreat on Holy Island.
Curved Ball…
You know when life throws you a curved ball? It lands with a punch, knocks you off your feet and turns your life upside down for a while. Suddenly you find you aren’t able to…
Masters retreat on Holy Isle
I am on the beautiful Holy Isle this week delivering the year end retreat for the first years of the University of Aberdeen’s MSc in Studies in Mindfulness. There can be no better place on…
Let me sell you some flowers
I started to write this blog on the notes app on my phone. Plotted up in a coffee shop down a busy shopping street, full of cafes and characters. It has been a while since…
On the train again…
OI have been struggling this week to write my blog. More often than not the words fall out of me and the blog writes itself. I have an alarm on my phone that sounds on…
Being on Holiday
I am in the sky, on an aeroplane, on my way for a week’s holiday in Zante. My friend Claire is staying there for a month and asked me to join her for a week.…
Lost in a Vortex
Life is good. And yet, I seem to allow myself to suffer. The cause of my suffering? My mind of course! I notice I have been quite serious lately. A bit weighed down with my…
All things bright and beautiful…..
Sometimes things to be grateful for aren’t always wrapped up in neat, pleasant packages
