LoveMindfulness

Even if you've never heard of interoception, it's something you have done every day of your life: sensing the internal state of your...

"I stand in awe of my body" Henry David Thoreau Try this thought experiment: what would change if we approached the practice of...

Photo by Taylor Deas-Melesh on Unsplash You bumped into an old friend when you were least expecting to: cue joyful surprise. You felt...

Mindfulness is all about getting rid of negative emotions and practicing positive thinking, right? Actually, no. Mindfulness is about...

“You are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don’t exist. I have experienced this time and time...

The sheer wonderment on his face is what I vividly recall from a chance encounter on Good Friday hill. Emerging through the Scots Pines...

An obvious yet curious thought: my body is partly made from potatoes! I eat potatoes several times a week. (As I write, images arise:...

What's it like when, rather than being afraid of change, we're excited by its possibilities? Consider the discomfort that most of us have...

Everything changes, doesn't it? Sometimes that fact causes pain and loss. Other times, the perspective that 'this too shall pass' is...

Will I, or others around me, come through this time of Covid-19 any wiser? It is commonly acknowledged that difficult, even traumatic...

Have you ever experienced a surge of relief, when an idea about how things (or people, including oneself) are 'supposed' to be suddenly...

"It is not intelligence that we need now. It is wisdom." David Attenborough Human intelligence, over millennia, has produced much that is...

Meditation is all about calm, tranquility and emotional wellbeing, right? Actually, that's not the whole story. There is another side to...

'Spooky action at a distance' was Einstein's dismissive comment in response to the notion of 'entanglement': the suggestion that, in the...

In the centuries-old story of Milarepa, the great poet-saint of Tibet, one day he returns to his cave in the mountains to discover that...

Dear reader, you may be disappointed to hear this tale of a mindfulness teacher being overcome by stress.. Earlier this week, an issue...

Openhearted communications with strangers have been something of a theme these last few days, from "finding-this-weird-but-getting-used-t...

Could emotions such as love, joy and gratitude actually boost our immune system? It is well known that stress-emotions negatively impact...

Years ago I taught a girl whose little brother died of meningitis. It was my first job as a school teacher and I was inexperienced in...

What we believe to be true can easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we anxiously ruminate on an anticipated event, believing that...