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What do you really want for Christmas…? What can you offer others that they will truly value…? We just want to be happy! As human beings we are undeniably attracted to material possessions. Christmas time is typically when we get to celebrate and fully indulge this attraction. After-all, who doesn’t like receiving a present? We…
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Remember meditation is simply present moment awareness. Nothing more and nothing less. Yes it is beneficial to have a regular and strong formal sitting practice. The operative word here though is “practice”! This is practice in 2 senses of the word. Firstly it is practice in terms of getting familiar with the actual formal sitting…
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Read a San Francisco Chronicle article on a highly popular Stanford University course on happiness. The course was set up in response to 4 student suicides at the university in 2006. The course includes discussing research on what leads to happiness and what does not. Their definition of happiness…? Fred Luskin, instructor of the Stanford…
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Video news item and article from ABC News in America about the latest scientific research suggesting that mindfulness meditation changes the structure of our brains…for the better! Great interviews with meditating children, the Dalai Lama and member from rock band Weezer! “Sharon Salzberg said her mind might be very different if it weren’t for meditation,…
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Beginner Meditation Instructions One of the best things about mindfulness meditation is that it is incredibly easy to learn. It is an extremely simple process that anyone (and I mean anyone) can do. The first and most important instruction is to remember that….. You don’t have to stop your thoughts: You don’t have to stop…
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One of my favourite poems… The Guest House – By Rumi – Translated by Coleman Barks This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,…