(NOTE TO TEXT: I am very tired. So some if this is a bit garbled, some is terrible English and there is no doubt that there will be more mistakes than usual.) Well, my already slow blogging activities have been curtailed a a little more recently as three months ago my wife and I had [...] Read more »
Other Tricks To Reduce Habituation
In my last post we discussed how meditation can reduce habitation in general, but in particular in the context of “stuff”, the things we covet, buy and own; how we can reduce the neurological process whereby you get bored with what you have and start to yearn for more. In this post I wanted to [...] Read more »
Don’t Buy Something, Just Sit There
Our brains do an odd thing. If we see, hear or do the same thing over and over again, we stop paying attention to it. We desensitise to it. This is called habituation. Have you ever gone into a room and thought, “something is different, but I am not sure what?” and then someone tells [...] Read more »
Why I Meditate
My mind goes at about a 1000 miles an hour. Always has. It’s exhausting. It is why I talk so much and so fast, it is a sort of escape valve to release the buildup of thought pressure. Thoughts and ideas come in and go out of my head so fast I can’t grab hold [...] Read more »
The Mynah Method
In continuation from my last entry, I wanted to go into a bit more detail about how to organise your tasks and time in a way that will fend off the Short Time Mob. I have dubbed this the “Mynah Method” after the mynah birds in Aldous Huxley’s novel Island. I once had a client [...] Read more »
A Pocket Guide For The Flaneur Of Life
So, I accidentally wrote a new book – “A Pocket Guide For The Flaneur of Life”. I have been working on an update to my “Mindfulness Meditation Demystified” Guide when inspiration struck and I wrote this book instead! What Is A Flaneur of Life? The term Flaneur was coined in 19th century Paris, to describe [...] Read more »
Attention! Attention! Reconnecting With Time
Where does all the time go? You would think I should have known better. I have been practicing mindfulness meditation for almost 20 years. I have embraced the Slow Philosophy and work every day on becoming a Flaneur of life, treating it like a stroll and drinking in the detail. Endeavouring to become unhurried and [...] Read more »
Thank You
This is just a little note to publicly say thank you to everyone who contacted me after my last blog post to say they were really pleased I was writing again and how much they had missed me posting (few! That’s a long sentence). I have done my best to reply to everyone personally. It [...] Read more »
TKB V 3.0
Oh there you are. I have been waiting for you… Well, it has been awhile. Far longer than expected or anticipated. I know this is a Slow Blog, but it is a bit ridiculous. So, what has happened? To understand that we need to do a little history. TKB Version 1.0 Version 1.0 of this [...] Read more »
The Deckchair Diaries – Spring 2013
The problem with writing a block or trying to be active on the myriad of social networking sites out there is you tend to “blogify” (or “twitterify” or “facebookify”, or “socialnetworkofthemomentify”) your life. You are constantly looking for ways to spin experiences into a pithy, fun or informative posts, comments or tweets. You start to [...] Read more »