Every time I have ‘too much to do ’ I have to really take myself for a walk, and there’s always resistance. I’ve learned to lean into the resistances, if only I can get myself away from my desk and out the door, or on to the cushion. I seem to be glued to the…
February 5th It’s my turn, to lead. Later today. I notice how this thought permeated my whole day, from the moment I woke up. I notice how this thought had a sticky persistence, and its delivery somehow becoming more urgent. I really saw how “what I resist persists”. I didn’t want to be thinking about…
Fear and Butterflies 5 Minutes before peer group zoom teaching session where I will teach Recognising the Unsettled Mind – I realise I have an Unsettled Mind. Body jittery. Heart, announcing its presence and power by thumping. Hard. I can’t focus. Do I really want to do this? What have I let myself in for?…
This is a blog about the initial stages of my experience of training to become a teacher of Mindfulness. I am not a teacher of Mindfulness yet, and so anything I write here is of my experience only. I have completed the first training at Level One and have signed up to the Mindfulness Association’s…
MBLC Teacher CPD One Day Workshop – Teaching Mindfulness Online This one day workshop will be held on the online meeting platform Zoom from 10.00am until 16.00pm. At the start of the day we will share tips and tricks on how to use Zoom and we will explore how to teach mindfulness safely and…
As I write this blog today, I am reminiscing – my mind is pulled to the past, to what seems distant and luxurious memories of a pre-pandemic retreat on Holy Isle. And as I prepare to write I am aware of distraction in the mind closer to home. But there is good reason for my…
So I’ve decided to take the plunge. I’ve been teetering for a while. I just haven’t been able to see myself ‘doing it’ and don’t feel nearly wise enough. But after seeing and feeling the benefits in my life and in my whole being from my mindfulness and compassion practices; seeing how I have learned…
“If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot and stay with it. We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility. That’s the true practice of peace.” Pema Chödron…
Self Isolation I’ve realised that I don’t need a lockdown to make me feel isolated. I am the master of self-isolation – and I don’t need anyone to tell me to do it. Ironically the lockdown I am currently experiencing has brought to light my tendency to self isolate. Well it’s the combination of a…