As a slight interlude to the conversation we are having about compassion I just wanted to let you know about an excellent ebook I have come across recently (I haven’t done a good book review for quite awhile!): Simplify by Rob Westwood On the face of it, this ebook appears to be another one of [...] Read more »
Compassionate Practice
Buddhism has a very powerful meditation called Metta Bhavana or “Development of Compassion” which is an excellent exercise in developing loving kindest or friendship. Recent studies have suggested that regulate Metta practice can have positive effects on both your physical health and your mental well being. How To Do It There are six stages to [...] Read more »
How to Develop Slow Speech
Here are just a few ways you can practice slow speech, become less critical and more positive in what you say. This will have an affect that more people will like you and want to hang out with you. Which is nice… Be grateful – the happier you are with your life the less likely [...] Read more »
Flirting with the Muse: Overcoming Writers Block
Wow! It has been awhile… In fact I haven’t really got into the rhythm of writing yet in 2011 and it is April already. I have been going through a period of unprecedented busyness since the start of the year. I recognise it all as the interplay of Yin and Yang, expansion and contraction, busy [...] Read more »
Smiling: An Experiment
For the last week or so I have been experimenting with making myself smile at all times and exploring the results on my state of mind and wellbeing (it is not really what you could describe as scientific…). The idea being, that when we are happy, we tend to smile, however, the feedback loop seems [...] Read more »
Meditation Makes You Cool
We often say “I am thinking”, but really it is the other way round; “thinking is doing you”, what I mean by this is that our sense of “self” is a product of our thought processes. There is no fixed self or personality, we recreate our “selves” from moment to moment. So, if your personality [...] Read more »
Zen Therapy: A New Approach to Coaching
Although I have been blogging (with varying degrees of success) since 2005, I don’t, primarily consider myself a blogger (those of you who are regular readers will have noticed some of the grammatical and spelling clangers I have made over the years!). I consider myself, primarily a coach, trainer and therapist (which is how I [...] Read more »
Slow Down Go Faster
Today I was running late, I rushed to try and put my shoes on to get out of the door. I pulled my shoelace in a funny way and actually made the knot tighter and struggled to get my shoe on and the knot undone. In my rush and fluster I got frustrated and started [...] Read more »
4 Physical Ways to Slow Down
I talk a lot about cultivating your “tortoise mind”, in fact, one could say it is the raison d’être of this blog. However, really, talking just about the “tortoise mind” is somewhat of a red herring, as our mind and body are intrinsically linked and one affects the other. One of the fastest ways to [...] Read more »
Slow and Minimalism
I was reading the other day about Leo Babauta (the public face of minimalism) and Robert Wringham (the editor of the New Escapologist) only own 50 and 20 things respectively. I own shit loads of stuff. And I don’t care. I never saw slowing down being particularly about minimalism, or jettisoning things. Minimalism, frugality and [...] Read more »