Distractions are your practice

When you sit down to meditate, you usually want it to be a calm, uninterrupted and peaceful time, and to

Mindful of the gap

Mindfulness teaching in Europe and North America appears to have stalled. Demand for teacher training has dropped, and the organisations

You need to slow down to go faster

Mindfulness practice is full of apparent paradoxes. Many years ago I did an advanced driving course sponsored by my employer.

How do you spend your time?

I recently opened a book I first read 35 years ago: Games People Play by Eric Berne. As a rookie

The process of mindfulness

I recently enjoyed an article in Psyche Magazine: Equanimity is not stillness – it is a mobility of the mind. 

Why I have been meditating for nearly 30 years

Like many (or most) who start a regular meditation or mindfulness practice, it was part of the recovery from a