How are you today? Are you feeling busy? Want to find out how to get more done, in less time, whilst feeling less stressed? This morning I want to share a secret with you.
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Time To Stop ‘Pretending’ To Breathe? Turn Things Around With A 3 Minute Belly-Breathing Meditation
Most of us are just ‘pretending’ to breathe. We have trained ourselves to do just enough to survive. But most of us aren’t breathing properly. We’re denying our bodies the oxygen-rich fuel they crave, which has implications for our health – physically, mentally and emotionally.
Fortunately all you need to do, to turn things around, is to take 10 deep breaths.
Are You Trying Too Hard To Meditate?
Who do you believe: those who tell you that meditation should be enormously hard work? Or those who tell you it should be effortless?
Discover the secret problem that most beginner meditators encounter and how you can fix it – right now – easily. [Read more…] about Are You Trying Too Hard To Meditate?
How Falling In Love With Your Monkey Mind Can Be The Key To Inner Peace
One of the common challenges students face, when trying to silently observe their thoughts, as part of a meditation or mindfulness practice, is that their monkey mind plays games.
Our thoughts are running in the background, practically all of the time. They’re chattering, passing judgement, analysing, debating, reviewing, nagging, reminding and doing a thousand other things, while we carry on with our day. Sometimes the simple action of stopping our ‘busy-ness’ to become the observer of our thoughts can seem overwhelming.
That’s when the #1 meditation myth kicks in. [Read more…] about How Falling In Love With Your Monkey Mind Can Be The Key To Inner Peace
How Mindfulness Can Give You Back Your Choice
Mindfulness is a way of bring our over-full mind back from wherever it has been camping out, to living in the present moment. It can be an incredibly useful technique for dealing with stress and worries, as well as for deepening your meditation experience.
Discover how mindfulness can help you get out of ‘auto-pilot’ mode and reclaim your choice over how you respond to challenging events and experience life. [Read more…] about How Mindfulness Can Give You Back Your Choice
Feeling Down? Why Meditation Could Be Just What You Need
One of the things we do when we’re feeling a yucky emotion – whether it’s sadness, depression, guilt or anger, is to run from it. We resist it. We fight it. We pretend it’s not there.
And, as I often hear from meditation students, the last thing we want to do when we’re feeling down is to meditate. Who on earth would want to sit quietly and go into silence, when their mind is reminding them of all the reasons they should feel bad?
Yet, often, that’s the best thing we could do. So how could you best handle meditating, when you’re not in the mood? [Read more…] about Feeling Down? Why Meditation Could Be Just What You Need