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How To Sit In Meditation
Eyes: You can close them if it is comfortable, but that can promote drowsiness or excessive mental activity. It is best to allow your eyelids to relax and half close. You should focus on the ground approximately 4 feet in front of you. Ears: To make sure your head, neck and spine are aligned properly, [...] Read more »
The Benefits Of Parenthood – The Little Things
Yes, yes, being a parent is it’s own reward, having children (if you want them and I really appreciate that there are people who don’t and they in no way should be judged or stigmatised for that. But that is a totally different topic) is the most fulfilling thing you will ever do. But, with [...] Read more »
Mindfulness Without Compassion
As I discussed in my last blog entry, this year I am focusing on being nice to people, being kinder and more compassionate to everyone and cultivate Metta (a Pali word for benevolence, friendship, etc often used in Buddhism). When asked by a friend recently why I have decided to spend time practicing being nice [...] Read more »
Life Is Short, Be Nice To One Another
This year, I have resolved to be nice(r) to people. You see, I have a terrible confession; I can, at times (a lot of times) find myself being mean and nasty about people, often other drivers when I am in my car, I criticise them for being too slow, too fast, not changing lanes, being [...] Read more »
Slow Parenting – Trust Yourself
A friend of mine, who studied genetics at university, once told me a story of these birds that had been bred in captivity for generations, they had never been out in the wild. Yet when the keepers flew a kite over them in the shape of a raptor, the chicks cowered in their nest. They [...] Read more »
About Time: The Slowest Film Ever?
In old Zen stories Enlightenment rarely occurs in the meditation hall, it happens in the strangest of places, with often the simplest things triggering the experience. I am not suggesting I attained enlightenment in the Buddhist sense (some days I think I am about as far from enlightened as it is possible to be get), [...] Read more »
Slow Life Lessons From Jason Statham?
Who would have thought that Jason Statham would be an advocate for the Slow Movement? Yet, I was perusing Youtube the other day, watching TED talks and School of Life videos (is it procrastination when it is educational?) and I stumbled across these old adverts from 2003 where Jason Statham, before he became the massive [...] Read more »
i-Matter
Staying in the literary theme I started last entry with my celebration of Ulysses, Tracy Sohl, a long time reader of this blog and all round lovely person has written a little book called i-Matter, and she kindly sent me a copy. And I really love it! Lets begin with the title, i-Matter is short [...] Read more »
A Celebration of Ulysses – The Slowest Book Ever Written
This is a post I have been meaning to write for some time, but never seemed to get round to it. So since it is Bloomsday today, I have forced myself to get it out there. What am I on about? Well for those of you that are uninitiated, Bloomsday (16th June) is the day [...] Read more »