Yourself
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→ How to Be a Good Friend to Yourself – Online course
→ How to Make Your Stress Benefit You – Online course
→ How to Start Meditation in a Way that will Last – Online course
→ How to Make Time for Meditation in a Busy Life – Online course
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We have made a selection of the blog posts that fit well with this category
7 Ways to Benefit from Nature in the City
My partner and I have just got back from a short break in Drenthe, a province in the NE of the Netherlands. It’s a...
4 types of people I met during my time in a wheelchair
A while back I was having quite a bit of knee trouble and it was hard to get around. I fly a lot for my work and so I...
What Gets in the Way of Your Meditation?
Meditation is quite easy to learn and it’s not hard to practice. What can be hard is to make it part of your life. Do you...
5 Things to Remember When You End Your Meditation Session
How do you end your meditation session? Do you find that it’s very easy to hear your timer go off for the time you’ve...
How To Deal With The Stuff That Comes Up In Meditation
At last you’ve made it to your meditation seat! What a relief to actually get down to it. You sit in the correct posture,...
7 Ways To Cope With Feeling Overwhelmed By City Life
We have all been there. Those moments when city life feels too full—too many people, too much noise, too much everything....
Which Meditation Method Works Best for You?
A meditation method is really just an activity we can give our restless mind when we want it to settle. The meditation...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Meditation Checklist
Introduction to the Meditation Checklist There is a great deal of information out there about meditation. To meditate is...
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...
How to Cope When Your Work Colleague is Your Worst Nightmare
Do you work with someone who you dread having to interact with? Someone who stifles you, who never gives you any positive...
4 Ways My Kindness Suffers from Lack of Attention
It took me a long time to realize that my kindness can suffer from a lack of attention. Although it matters a lot to me to...
How Expecting Emotional Support Can Make Things Worse
When things are really tough for you, do you find yourself thinking of friends and family and kind of grading the emotional...
How to Follow the News Without Going Crazy
As the Beatles sang in their song, A Day in the Life, I read the news today, oh boy.... As I read the news, the main...
How To Get Self-Care Right
A few weeks ago, I was visiting some friends of mine and there was a bit of a crisis. Their 27-year-old son, who has...
How to Benefit from the Power of Common Humanity
This is the story of how I recently overcame my feelings of wanting to lie low and nurse my stress by going into town and...
How to Survive Bad Times with an Open Heart
In the UK three out of 4 people have been so stressed at least once over the last year that they have felt overwhelmed, or...
How strong emotions can stop you seeing clearly
Emotional by nature If you are interested in astrology, then you will know that for those of us born under the sign of the...
Your Six Top Reasons to Try an Online Course
Are you familiar with the growing popularity of online courses? If you know where to look it is now possible to find a...
How to Turn Your Restaurant Rage into Kindness
A few weeks ago, my partner and I were out with some friends for dinner. We had not seen them for a while and we had a lot...