The Saturday meditation group is not meeting on Saturday 12th and 19th of March. We are meeting 26th March during Easter, but in Hungerford rather than Chisbury. This is because of the building works on our premises, which are expected to run for 4 weeks from 21st March. During that time we will hold the group … Read more
Part of ‘Ash Wednesday’ by T.S. Eliot, that I find useful during meditation: “I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love … Read more
The Good Life is a phrase from Positive Psychology, although some of you may also recall the comedy series with Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal. In Positive Psychology your reach The Good Life as a result of effective effort, absorption in challenging meaningful activity and practicing mindfulness. That’s a gross simplification, but hopefully gives a … Read more
In the new year I am planning to begin a meditation group in collaboration with Lorna at Quiescence Wellbeing. We will be using breath meditation, guided meditation, and a mixture of other techniques to help participants on their personal journeys. It will probably be for an hour and a half, once a week. If you’re … Read more
Evidence from research suggests that mindfulness style meditation helps you relate to your thoughts and feelings in a non-judgemental and non-reactive fashion. This can bring you to a place where you are more able to observe how you are in the present moment with compassion, hold emotion better, and be less harshly critical of yourself, … Read more
It’s almost Christmas! And my Christmas present is a guided meditation for your inner child – or if you are a parent, for your inner child and your external child to do together! Read this through first, or better record it so you can play it back to yourself. Find somewhere comfortable and quiet to … Read more
If you decorate your home for Christmas, chances are you’ve something green, perhaps including some holly. Holly has a long tradition of use at this time of year as a decoration with its deep green leaves and lovely red berries, but holly represents more than just decoration. Like the Christmas tree, with Holly you bring … Read more
