Category Mindfulness & Meditation
Inspirational Perspectives, Part 3
This article offers various perspectives on Consciousness, Ultimate Truth, The Source, The Absolute, God, whatever you may choose to call it. There is a longer introduction to what that refers to, and what the title of these articles refers to,…
Inspirational Perspectives, Part 2
This article offers various perspectives on Enlightenment, Ultimate Truth, The Source, The Absolute, God, whatever you may choose to call it. There is a longer introduction to what that refers to, and what the title of these articles refers to,…
Inspirational Perspectives, Part 1
Fundamentally, all spiritual paths are created for the purpose of helping the “spiritual seeker” find the Ultimate Truth, The Source, The Absolute, God, whatever you may choose to call it. Actually, what you call it is not really important, because…
Mindful Breathing Therapy; mindfulness-based, integrative breathwork
Mindful Breathing Therapy, also sometimes referred to as ‘Integrative Breathwork’, is an experiential, mindfulness-based, body-oriented approach at the leading edge of modern psychotherapy. It is classed as a mind-body, complementary health practice, and is becoming increasingly popular as an alternative…
Agenda Free Sex
The title for this article ended up as “Agenda Free Sex”. Perhaps I should have put a hyphen between Agenda and Free, to make it “Agenda-free Sex”, in order to avoid that it is interpreted as “Agenda: Free Sex”. But…
The Quest for Happiness
For some reason I have recently found myself in conversation with several clients about what causes happiness, what makes you happy. Now, the word ‘happy’ may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Some people would see ‘happy’ as at best…
Stoicon Brisbane 2018
This is the transcript of a brief talk that I prepared for the Stoicon conference in Brisbane on 28 October 2018. Mindfulness practice for Stoics What I will be proposing in my brief talk today is that there is a…
Traditional Mindfulness Meditation Course – IAM Stage 1
The Integrating Awareness Meditation (IAM) course is typically done in stages, so that you get to practise for a while and absorb what you have learned, before you go on to the next, deeper stage. On this page you find…
How you can benefit from Mindfulness Meditation practice
I have written extensively about the benefits of Mindfulness Meditation practice in various articles on my website. Perhaps you have read some of them, perhaps you have never gone there to have a look? Either way, I want to provide…
Meditation for Depression and Anxiety instead of Medication
Mindfulness meditation is a form of meditation where you withdraw your engagement with the incessant chatter of the mind, and draw your awareness toward your sensory experience of the present moment, while suspending judgement and mental commentary. It is a…
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Depression and Heart Failure
When we talk about the heart and matters of the heart, language is ambiguous. Sometimes we refer to the fist-size muscle in the chest. Other times we refer to a centre of feelings. And rarely would we be referring to…
