Here at the Mindfulness Association we offer a long term systematic training in meditation that moves through practices for cultivating mindfulness, compassion, insight and wisdom. As we do this we don’t leave the previous practices behind but they form a foundation for future practices and also provide a rich collection of practices to revisit whenever…
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few” ― Shunryu Suzuki My mind is full, and not always mindful. And I’ve been doing this a while. It’s not getting easier, but it is geting deeper, messier. What a joy! The deep path of mindfulness training as opposed to the…
Mindfulness Based Healthy Living (MBHL) Teacher Training 8-10 July 2022. To qualify you will need to have completed an 8 week Mindfulness Based Healthy Living Course. Due to the popularity of this new eight week course, we are putting in place a pathway for MBLC teachers to train to teach it. The first step is…
Today it feels like the whole world is conspiring against me! Today I’m having a day! It’s such a shock to feel something not very nice stirring deep down somewhere, a surprise. I don’t like it. And yes, I do want it to go away. Everything. I want everything and everyone to go away. Well…
Once when the lawn was golden green And the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials In the scented air, and the whole countryside pulsed With the chirr and murmer of insects, I lay in the grass Feeling the great distances open above me, and wondered What I would become and where I would find…
Practising acceptance is transformative. It is also the simple basis for naturally arising compassion.
25 February 7pm – with Fay Adams Access to Compassion ~ Transformation through Acceptance Practising acceptance is transformative. It is also the simple basis for naturally arising compassion. If we can accept our feelings as real, understandable and (more often than not) workable, we find that inner conflict and complexity drains less of our energy.…
Don’t recall / Let go of what has passed Don’t imagine / Let go of what may come Don’t think / Let go of what is happening now Don’t examine / Don’t try to figure anything out Don’t control / Don’t try to make anything happen Rest / Relax right now and rest “Six…
A few years ago I found myself in hospital in a ward on my own, with wires attached to me. Nobody came to see me and the nurses avoided me. It was really strange but I think they knew something I didn’t. There I was – with nothing to do, and nowhere to go. Does…