Category: mindfulness
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Why I am writing
My writing is driven by selfish desire to notice better how I am doing and no to much by hoping to enlighten others.
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Mindfulness of Breath
Sometimes you don’t need to read or talk about mindfulness, sometimes you should simply stop and practice it. Here is a simple practice anyone from beginner to long time adherent can use in their lives. Simply find yourself a place to be still. It doesn’t need to be a quiet location but that might help…
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Braiding Sweetgrass
What the world needs now is a lot more wisdom. Undiluted science, vital as though it is, is too often implemented without enough humility and awareness of the context, environment and people it is being affecting. It is sadly far too easy to cast around and see what kind of mess this reductionism is putting…
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It’s simple but it’s not easy
Don’t stop paying attention, but not to worry if you do; it’s no big deal, just go back to it when you’re ready. Then eventually what you begin to notice is that absolutely nothing ever stays still.
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Mindfulness and ChatGPT
I don’t think AI will be leading mindfulness groups and courses quite yet….. but having said that you can see a lot of sensible guidance here. What do you think? So out of curiosity I put the following instruction to chat GPT. “Give some mindfulness instructions to someone who is feeling anxious.” This was the…
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One thing leads to another
Sometimes practicing mindfulness can help us see how nothing really stands clearly on its own and apart. And all things including us are more interconnected and lighter than they first appear. This is a verse taken from another poem in ‘The First Free Women’.
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New Year – Mindful Resolution
This David Whyte poem is spot on for new beginnings new years and New Year’s resolutions. Actually it is spot in if you don’t do New Year’s resolutions. To me it talks of drawing attention in to what is happening now that n order to make changes for the future. So less of a whole…
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Quiet Tuesday
If you want some easy to follow no frills mindfulness then this is for you. I guide a weekly 30 minute session each Tuesday at 19:30. You can try it for free. If you like it then there is one off £40 fee with no further payments at all. Please contact me philip@trustingmind.co.uk, comment below…
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I hear you Mittakali, I hear you
The woman who wrote this lived about 2600 years ago. But she described her practice as though it were mine “I watched my thoughts/ piling themselves up/ all around me/…. Soon it was a whole city.” And now I am sitting here reassured in the knowledge that my situation is normal, probably common. There are…
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