LoveMindfulness

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...

The image of a pristine lotus growing out of the mud and slime at the bottom of the pool is a classic symbol for compassion in Eastern tradi

I recently received a surprise phone call from BBC Radio Sussex, asking if I would be willing, with ten minutes notice, to go on air to...

In this 'information Age', most of us are processing vastly more information than any of our predecessors. The digital world and social...

I have a love-hate relationship with gardening. On some days, the garden is a timeless realm, where the sight of a suckling bee or a...

The suggestion of offering mindfulness training in schools can divide opinion among staff, from those who welcome this approach to...

Without giving too much away, I can divulge that towards the end of many 8-week mindfulness courses there is an opportunity to send a...

My mother is a fluent French-speaker, having lived in Paris after the war. Lacking her aptitude, I was not confident about conversing in...

At the end of 2016 I left a regular teaching job to set myself up as a freelance mindfulness trainer in Sussex, in partnership with my...