I fully understand the concern of many people since there have been some alarming news lately about mindfulness not being safe like this article published in a scientific journal. So, is mindfulness really dangerous? No, mindfulness is not dangerous if Read more…
In 1979 Jon Kabat-Zinn developed an eight-week program to help terminally ill people to reduce their stress and anxiety. This program is now widely known as MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction). As the name of his program suggests, mindfulness is at Read more…
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 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 Read more…
Very few exercises in the modern mindfulness tradition are so difficult for skeptics to get into. Simple breathing meditation combined with psychological hacks are one thing to try in our mind driven world, but repeating a phrase like ‘May you 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 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 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 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 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), 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. 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 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 Read more…
