‘The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.’ Thích Nhat Hạnh People often think mindfulness is about sitting in silence, meditating. In actual fact, it’s is a way of life and I’m interested in helping people…
‘It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don’t expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the…
I spend a lot of time talking to people about how to balance living mindfully with achieving goals. One of the most common questions I’m asked is ‘if you’re living mindfully, doesn’t that mean you’ll never achieve anything?’. The short answer is, not at all….
‘When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.’ Eckhart Tolle All around me I hear people saying that they’re tired of striving for more. They say it in different…
When Martin Seligman was in Melbourne some years ago, I went to listen to him speak. He’s a warm teddy-bear-of-a-man who admits to being a born pessimist (despite the fact that he writes books about optimism). One of the things that helps him through difficult days is…
Before running a work life balance workshop for a corporate client, I survey participants to find out what they are most interested in. Invariably, meditation ranks low. Still, I introduce a brief guided relaxation and within the evaluations at the end, participants usually say they…
Patience is something that lives (or dies) in our own minds. Every day we make choices about how we respond to the events that unfold around us. And each of those choices has an impact on how much enjoyment we get from a day –…
Byron Bay Mindfulness Retreat As soon as I arrived at Sangsurya in Byron Bay to run this year’s mindfulness retreat, I remembered how much this place feels like a complete escape from the real world. The bush setting immediately connects you with nature. The birdsong,…
Sometimes themes appear with my clients. Not obvious ones like everyone feeling a bit less energetic because of the cold weather – but more subtle things. This week’s theme was that people feel they should be more grateful for what they have. Gratitude is such…
