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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Meditation Guide Now Exclusively on Kindle
Don’t Do Something, Just Sit There! A Simple Introductory Guide to Mindfulness Meditation – Now Exclusively on Kindle. Do you want to learn to meditate but don’t know where to start? Click here to buy now: Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com Mindfulness meditation is a powerful tool of personal change. What seems a deceptively simple process has the [...] Read more »