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Tag: mindfulness
Life Update in the Here and Now
Steeped in the practice of being.right.here.in.this.moment.every moment as often as I remember which is a lot more often now. I … More
Loving Ourselves – a reframing
We don’t have to learn how to love ourselves. We already love ourselves. All we have to do is to … More
Screen Time
Endless Twitter and Facebook scrolling, meetings and courses on Zoom, work on the computer, hours spent binge watching, and lots … More
Welcoming the Obstacles
Its 6am. Lying in bed newly awake and the head kicks in and starts to think it’s thoughts. I notice … More
Thinking it into Existence
Continuing with dropping the thoughts and just trusting the Ground, over and over…..though less requirement recently, and it’s more automatic … More
We got This!
I’m feeling optimistic that many more of us are finding the remarkably simple formula for expanding our awareness and increasing … More
Very Wise Quote – HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
“The everyday practice of dzogchen is simply to develop a complete carefree acceptance, an openness to all situations without limit. … More
“Shouldn’t I be Doing Something Else?“
“Something more important, more urgent”. This is a voice that comes to me quite regularly. And I answer it with … More
Emotions – They are Temporary
Quick one to remind us that it is helpful to keep in mind that emotions are largely temporary. It’s particularly … More
Sitting Back Inside
Sitting right right back as far as I can for a few seconds and noticing the thoughts that arrive. Then … More
Mindfulness and Surprising Spontaneity
Dropping each thought as I notice them and trusting over and over here. Drop and trust drop and trust. Through … More
Useful Adversity
I’m enjoying the daily and hourly beauty of relinquishment and the giving up of what I want to happen. That’s … More
Collapsing the Stickman
When I allow thoughts to arrive unnoticed, my mind can build them into little stories in my head that I … More
Awakening help
I’ve benefitted greatly from listening to Angelo DiLullo. I’m listening to this podcast this morning with Viking Guru (who asks … More
Thoughts – Dropping and Trusting
I’m a walking, sitting, lying in bed, showering, shopping, chatting, bill paying, getting dressed and undressed, dog walking, ‘drop and … More
Shower Meditation
Today my foray into ‘dark night of the soul’ is on pause (woohoo) and it could just be due to … More
Testing
Yesterday was a pretty meaty test – the ‘demons’ came hard and fast. Demons as in scary thoughts tempting me … More
Peace
I’ve been submerging myself in fully surrendering to the vibrant emptiness and silence of me. All emphasis on happenings on … More
Keeping it Simple
Life is made up of mostly small things and little tasks. I used to find myself rushing through these to … More
Finding Treasure
My treasure is the discovery of a powerful ever present completely safe refuge, the surrendering to spacious expansive silence. Whenever … More
Enlightened Mentor
I had my second session last night. I had been making big leaps and bounds out of my shackles into … More
A few Positives to this Pandemic
Call me a ‘Pollyanna ’ but I find myself saying yes to a lot of what is happening. Of course … More
The World is a Feeling
I feel the leaves gentle float through the air to the ground, the crows high in the tree roosting, the … More
Facing the fear of not Interpreting
To face the fear of not interpreting and stay with the experience is a big beautiful ongoing lesson for me. … More
Long Wise Quote
“The everyday practice of dzogchen is simply to develop a complete carefree acceptance, an openness to all situations without limit. … More
Happiness Visits
I’m little by little getting used to this new sense of expansiveness and openness of heart. I presume it’s due … More
Trying to Avoid Pain
How timid I’ve been about feeling emotional pain. I have spent decades trying to control my environment so that I … More
Opening and Closing
To not close my heart and to instead remain open (and free). That sums it all up. The Mission. I … More
Returning to the Seat of Self
Whew, I got lost there for a couple of days in angst, bargaining with reality and rumination. My mind couldn’t … More
Inner Dialogue
It started in 1979 when I found a Carlos Castaneda book on my dads bedside table. It said that the … More
10/10 experiences
It’s been an almost anxiety free time this last 4 weeks or so which has allowed the rest of me, … More
Fine fizzling energy
I’m slowly breathing in and out from low down the body many times a day to stay grounded, and walking, … More
Surrender Experiment Day 11
Now firmly in the swing of surrendering when the annoyance from hearing banging and creaking upstairs appears. I notice occasionally … More
Happiness up, Anxiety down
Largely as a result of taking my ego on, taking a stand and not adjusting the world to make it … More
Sticky thoughts This Morning
The thoughts are random and fearful this morning. Bombarded from many angles of threat and suggestions to be fearful. You … More
Straddling two Worlds
There’s one world in which we help and care for each other. We cooperate freely and giving is not perceived … More
Hard weather
Literally, it’s been pouring and blowing a gale with only minor breaks for weeks and weeks, unrelenting. What a metaphor … More
Trusting Yourself
Quite often a strong inner prompting suggests a course of action that is contrary to the one we have made … More
Swan feather in the Breeze
A quick Messiah Netflix review
This series had a very positive effect on me. It was spiritually uplifting, and I am non religious. I binged … More
Choosing What to Give Attention to
Removing attention from some people and activities and making a conscious choice of where to focus attention has been a … More
Daily Vicissitudes
Was awoken prematurely mid dream by the dog needing out, a brain foggy start. I remembered the dream and in … More
Riding Worry
I ride the potentially fear producing thoughts these days with greater ease than before. This is what I do. ‘Oh … More
Celebrating Bad things that Haven’t Happened!
Part of reprogramming my mind towards noticing more ‘good facts’ is reminding myself of some of the adversity that isn’t … More
Perspectives
One very important reminder that the recent spate of suicides has given me is that how I feel and how … More
Loving Yourself
Where does the taboo against loving ourselves come from, this belief that it is wrong to have high self esteem? … More
Thoughts effect our Feelings
I was walking along in the park and I noticed a sharp drop in my mood. Then I realised that … More
Easing gently into Self Care
And how to integrate it into my life, and how I do it. Firstly I take note that there is … More
Stable week amid Storms
Mostly due to keeping myself on track with actions that make me feel good and avoiding those that don’t. A … More
Building Resilience
I have many small practices that together contribute to my resilience against succumbing to an overwhelm of stress and even … More
Juggling
The new course Finished the first 3 full days of the training in psychodynamic counselling. It was very intense in … More
Wishes of Others or Mine?
When to put my own feelings aside with the aim of being of service to others? When to listen to … More
Today’s recovery Plan
I’m aware I’m not out of the woods yet, and vulnerable to descent into gloom and anxiety. So for a … More
The Gift of Opening up to Others
Something quite beautiful happened as a result of my meltdown this week. No longer able to display the coping strong … More
The portal
There is a portal I can go through any second of any day. It has taken me a lifetime to … More
Today’s Process, fear of freedom, facing hatred.
Been doing so much reading that thrills, soothes and entices and then remembered, ‘oh yes, you have to actually DO … More
Just Being
I arrived back from the South of France yesterday. Some welcome warmth and sunshine, medieval architecture, good food, flowers. I’m … More
Sameness
Getting to accept this stability, calmness, quiet, aloneness. Drama will appear no doubt, but for now it is lacking though … More
More Peace, less Strain
A few days more have passed of living without my favourite bad habits, alcohol, sugar, overeating and Facebook. And all … More
Learning to Rest with it All 