Balance seems to be elusive. The more we strive for it, the less we seem to have. Entrepreneurs, in particular, worry about balancing work and family life, marketing and producing,…
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Every time I teach Mind Calm, whether in a group or one-to-one, in person or via Skype, I talk first of all about the tiredness that will come up. I…
It’s natural to be nervous when you are trying something different. There are all sorts of preconceptions attached to the idea of meditation and as a result the thought of…
Last week I posted this on my Facebook page: Loving yourself is not conditional; it doesn’t need you to be good enough, for you to like or approve of yourself….
Today I am letting my own video speak for me. Just over a week ago, Adrian Birtwell from Standout Videos and I clambered over the marshes near the Sailing Club…
If we are running a business for ourselves there ought to be a lot of fun. But what constitutes ‘fun’ is different for each person. What do you enjoy most,…
I didn’t realise how tired I was this morning until my Mind Calm Sitting. Being still in awareness, I saw how my racing thoughts, my eagerness to ‘get everything sorted,’…
There is a blank space on this page. And here is an invitation: see if you can rest with the blankness for a while. Don’t try, don’t resist. Just see…
Yesterday I came home from running my Mind Calm Meditation workshop to go straight into a 24 hour period of being on call for my job in the criminal justice…
This morning my alarm sounded at 5.30. I needed time to meditate before getting ready and setting off for the Mind Calm Meditation workshop I was running in Colchester. It’s…
This photo is from the ‘events’ page on my website. I use it to represent the power and beauty of a group of people. A cornfield appears to be a…
This is what I would like to be doing right now but I’m not a daytime sleeper. If I manage to fall asleep during the day, I go so deep…