Sometimes our heads are not a good place to be. It can feel overwhelming when thoughts start to race and emotions are flaring up. Furthermore, most of us have been educated in such a way that we value our thinking over all else. So sometimes, getting out of our heads Read more…
In their essence MBSR, MBCT and ACT are psychological interventions that have at their core the practice of mindfulness, an accepting way of relating to whatever is happening in the present moment. They differ in the problem they want to address and in the techniques they add on to the Read more…
In the first part of this two part article series, I discussed the wide variety of practices that are available in the modern mindfulness tradition. I focus deeper on the diversity of formal meditation practices that you can choose from and detail them. In this second part, I discuss the Read more…
This post is the first in a series that details the full bandwidth of mindfulness meditation practices. In this first part, I cover the different kind of practices that exist and I will go in greater depth about what we call formal mindfulness practice. In part 2, I cover the Read more…
“When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.” Jack Kornfield Is a meditation cushion something for me? So, you have been practicing mindfulness Read more…
I am often asked how I can bear to witness this kind of pain regularly. My answer is simple: I get to see the pain of loss change people in miraculously positive ways. Over and over again I watch people transform from complete hopelessness into the positive states of mind Read more…
Don’t fall asleep In this article, you will learn all about the infamous body scan meditation. Why do I say ‘infamous’? Because my experience in doing this meditation myself many, many times (both as the meditator and as the teacher), is that many people tend to fall asleep when doing Read more…
If you came looking in this article for the ins and outs of the raisin meditation plus a free guided meditation, you came to the right place. But first let me tell you what the raisin meditation is not about. It is not about raisins. It is all about learning Read more…
What is mindfulness? One of the questions I get asked a lot, is ‘what exactly is mindfulness meditation?’. The easy answer to this that mindfulness meditation is a set of practices that make you more mindful. But then, what is mindfulness exactly? As it turns out, this question is not Read more…
Remember the last time you got ill? Your muscles might have felt sour, your might have had an annoying running nose, or, the most dreadful of all for me, you might have felt nauseous. So, the last thing you should to be doing is to zoom in to your general Read more…