Category: mindfulness
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Just turn on with me and you’re not alone
Woke up feeling low and blue down in my belly. Head full of it too. Made a mug of tea and returned to bed. Meditated on body sensations, just body sensations – most of which flowed out like an overlooked tide. I didn’t want any of this; today’s stuff or tomorrow’s plans and outcomes either.…
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Children
There’s a moment I am starting to recognise, when you say goodbye to your adult child, tell them again you love them and watch them walk off, putting in their earphones, striding back into their own lives. I know you won’t see them again for a couple of months and they probably won’t phone or…
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Everything. We are everything
I have two books on the go at the moment. Which is not always a good idea. I can lose track of one as I swim in the other. But earlier this month there was a beautiful synchronicity that was impossible not notice. Firstly, in ‘The Wild Within’ Brigit Anna MacNeill writes in a chapter…
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What’s the point of meditating? (part 2)
How meditation can lead is to see we have agency in our lives and how we can use that to meet the world with more compassion
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The sweater my mum knitted me
I went to buy a coffee and slice of cake. The young woman serving me explained it was a vegan cake and I might notice a different taste and I said I didn’t mind and that lemon and elderflower sounded just what I wanted. Then when taking my money she said she commented she liked…
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What’s the point of meditating? (part 1)
A short post on how meditation helps us get to know ourselves.
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What the fuck am I thinking?
Last week, I wrote this down in the book I was reading “Everything I think, do and say is an attempt to get way from or cover up what is actually here in the present moment. Everything.” And while this is certainly both an exaggeration and melodramatic, it is also blushed through with truth. And…
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My favourite chapter in any book on Buddhism or meditation
How I love Pema Chodron’s teaching and writing on meditation
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Meditation Guidance by Roberta Flack
Taking it easy on a cold wet November Saturday afternoon. Deservingly so too, coming after two long long weeks. Got some old soul music playing and then, and then. ….on the outro to Roberta Flack “Go up Moses” I hear her saying this My people, let pharaoh goYou don’t need him; you don’t need his…
