The door is red and arched surrounded by a low stone wall covered in creeping vines and ferns. There is a wrought iron handle that needs to be pulled and turned to open the door. Above the door is my name in an old fashioned script.
I believe the way we live our life, our sense of joy and purpose is determined by who we are on the inside. Not what we think, but our emotional balance.
It is no secret that I struggle to meditate. I’ve tried to establish a practice over and over again and still I don’t enjoy sitting and emptying my mind. It doesn’t bring me any joy or clarity — it just bores or frustrates me.
“I did what you recommended,” she said. “I listened to a guided meditation on gratitude while I lay in bed the other morning but my thoughts kept distracting me. I’m not any good at it, I didn’t do it right.”
Six MP3 mindfulness meditation exercises to download.
Sometimes the whole idea of meditation or hypnotherapy is out of the question. Who has time to sit down for fifteen minutes and do nothing? I’ve discovered that playing a track on your iPod while doing something else is just as beneficial.
I’ve always struggled with meditation. David Deida says that feminine essence is about being filled and masculine essence is about being empty. Meditation is becoming empty. Or so they say. This week I have been meditating according to the principles in the Presence Process. It involves sitting with the emotions of fear, anger and sadness… Read More
For those of us who struggle with thoughts about our size and shape, sometimes we don’t like our bodies and our behaviour very much. It seems like an impossible task to transform our self loathing into self-love, but it is possible with these five simple steps. I started to write some examples of the self loathing dialogue I… Read More
