I have spent this morning staring at a blank screen wondering what to write and why it is so difficult for us to write about ourselves. I’m sure it’s something anyone reading this can empathise with, from personal statements and cover letters to personal blogs like this one, it can be really hard to get…
Starts October 6th 8 Week Mindfulness Based Healthy Living Course Do You Want To Change Your Lifestyle To A Healthier Way Of Living? This new online 8 week course is being piloted this October. Its aim is to create the causes and conditions in your life for our health to flourish through positive changes in…
Tuesday August 24th at 7-8pm Join Jacky Seery for a soothing and gentle hour long taster session for her new course starting on the 14th September. Mindful Acceptance – Access to Compassion This course helps us to take a step towards self compassion, As our mindfulness practice deepends sometimes we notice some things about ourselves…
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 –…
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…
Welcome to August – our month of Awareness! Our Free Awareness in August calendar will see you through the month with a mindful prompt each day to keep you in touch with your awareness and keep you grounded, helping you make the most of your summer days. Download it HERE: AWARENESS IN AUGUST CALENDAR and either…
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!” Rumi Have you ever experienced one of those overwhelming events in life that can only be described as ‘having a meltdown’? One of those moments when the computer in your brain turns into Hal from the film…
Loving kindness meditation practice is a big part of the curriculum of the Mindfulness Association’s courses. In our mindfulness courses we practice loving kindness for a dear friend and then loving kindness for a dear friend and ourselves. In our compassion courses we practice widening the circles of loving kindness, where we start with a…
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In…