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Perhaps you have dropped by my blog to pick up some meditation advice, or maybe you are in a situation at work, or in your relationship that is prompting you to look for some answers.
Whatever the reason is that you are here, welcome! I hope you find what you are looking for and if by chance, you don’t find it then drop me an email and let me know what you are interested in. I will see if I can help.
The blogs that you will find here deal with different aspects of wellbeing, along with all the ways in which we can undermine ourselves as we try to achieve it. It’s a funny thing but don’t you find that much as we want to change and grow, we can still manage to get in our own way?
One of the special features of the Awareness in Action blog is the wide range of meditations and exercises we include to help us work with the habits that we have developed in order to help us cope but that actually get in our way. As we learn to make these techniques part of our everyday life, we begin to find ways to exchange these habits for ones that will help us develop. We can bring about the changes we are looking for.
To help you find your way around you will see blogs marked that relate to your own journey, to your relationships and to your workplace. You can also just browse around and see what catches your attention.
Now you have found us, feel free to comment, ask questions and share your own experience. A blog only really comes alive when its readers join in and take part.
Designing My Own Effective One-Day Meditation Intensive
I have been coaching Tom in meditation for a while now. Recently he had the idea to try to increase the time he meditates each day. In order to get a feel of what it means to meditate for longer periods, he designed this one-day intensive for himself. It skillfully plots a series of meditations […]
How to Be Kind in the Face of Brexit
I am a Brexit refugee. It’s been over twenty years since I left the UK to live in Amsterdam. Except for an interlude of five years working in France, I have been there ever since. It has been wonderful to have the freedom to live and work in Europe. This freedom is in direct contrast […]
Cure Email Overload with 3 Simple Steps
By the end of 2019 it is estimated that there will be 2.9 billion email users. That is more than one third of the worldwide population. Around 246 billion emails are sent each day. Business users receive about 126 emails per day. Right there is one source for email overload. How do we get […]
4 Ways to Start Your Work Day with Sparkle
This is what I do every work day What’s it like for you as you arrive at work to start your work day? Are you gritting your teeth to face a problem that’s waiting for you? Is there a work colleague that you dread meeting? Are you interested and stimulated by the thought of the […]
How to Ease into Meditation in 7 Simple Steps
A friend of mine told me a wonderful story about his early days of leading meditation sessions. At the time of this story he was working full time, had a young family and had really only been meditating himself for a couple of years. on top of all this he volunteered at a local Buddhist […]
How to Fund an Alternative Lifestyle
Photo by mali maeder from Pexels I am delighted to include a guest blog from Bhavna Kapoor Vaish. Bhavna worked in finance and banking and has a strong interest in mindfulness and meditation. She was the perfect person to ask to write something on how to manage your finances when you don’t want to have […]
What is the Best Time to Meditate?
The short answer to the question, what is the best time to meditate is—any time and as much as possible! However, this does not help us so much when we are trying to get used to meditation and to find a place for it in our lives. In this post we will take a look […]
How To Take a Fresh Look at Your Commute
How do you use your commute time? Do you cycle to work, or drive in your car? Maybe you take a tram, or bus? Perhaps you use the metro or ride a train. Whichever way you make the journey, your commute is a solid chunk of time twice a day, every working day. You’re not […]
Meditation Checklist
Introduction to the Meditation Checklist There is a great deal of information out there about meditation. To meditate is very simple but to make time and space for it in our lives can be tough. We need to find simple, practical ways to make it a habit – just like cleaning our teeth – so […]
6 Ways You Can Make the Glass Half Full
Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash It’s a great life skill to able to look on the bright side as we negotiate the ups and downs of everyday living. The ability to look at a glass and see it as half-full instead of half-empty is surprisingly rare but it’s impact on wellbeing is considerable. It increases our […]