Having taught meditation for decades, I want to reassure people that meditation is a natural human behaviour. All you need is an instinct to be quiet and calm. So why are there all these competing meditation traditions and schools? Here are three short stories that illustrate how meditation might have...
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Spiritual Teacher Gemma Polo Pujol
You are starting to love life as it is. Seeing this messiness, this confusion, as a road, as our good friend. Trying to discover what it’s really about, without settling for just any answer. When the people I teach tell me that they’re depressed I see it as a sign...
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Moving On
by Rose Elliot ‘Breaking up is hard to do’, goes the song, and it is; we all know that. Perhaps less well known though is the pain of parting from a group or organisation that has been deeply meaningful to us, particularly if it is of a religious or spiritual...
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Thunk – How to Think Less for Serenity and Success: With Sandy Newbigging
Listen to this free podcast witb Sandy Newbigging on his book Thunk: How to Think Less for Serenity and Success. An informative book offering methods to create more peace of mind and happiness by using less thought. Accessible and practical exercises are provided for putting focus on the context of one’s mind...
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Practising the Inner Smile
Would you join me in a spiritual version of Desert Island Discs? What are your favourite spiritual practices? And if you could only take one practice, which one would it be? If I were only allowed one particular exercise it would be the Inner Smile. This wonderful meditation exercise supports...
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The Descent and Ascent of the Soul
The Descent Higher consciousness is not something we have to find, or develop, acquire, possess, or to build up, because it is always present here and now. It is not out there or up there somewhere. The kingdom of God is within you. It is here, and is available at...
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Living Your Life with Integrity
I really want to be a good yogi, and I am trying very hard to purify myself, but it’s so hard. What’s wrong? Purification is an act of letting go. In one of the Gospels it says that men need not disfigure their faces in order to know God. There...
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How to Find Peace with Your Mind
How do you know you have a mind? You are aware of it, right? By that rationale, within you now exists a mind and something that is aware of your mind. Mind Calm is about becoming much more interested in, and attentive to, the conscious awareness that is aware of...
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How to have the best morning ever!
Oh what a beautiful morning! Doing is believing, that’s what I say! However you approach your morning sets the tone for the rest of the day. What’s the one thing you like to fit into your routine to make your morning ‘beautiful’? Since the email I wrote you last week,...
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Love Your Enemies
Once I was on a train going down the Hudson Valley to New York City and found myself sitting between a woman engaged in a rather loud conversation on her cellphone and a man growing increasingly agitated by the volume of her call. As the ride went on, accompanied by...
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