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Embody at Greenbelt 08

Embody is offering a couple of experiential sessions at Greenbelt this year and they're a couple not to miss. Coming first on Saturday night is Happiness and Chocolate and late on Sunday night is Neotopia. More ...

Jill Bolte Taylor has an “Aha” moment

What happens when the part of your brain that makes meditation so difficult switches off? Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor gives one of the most moving accounts of her own experience. One morning she had a stroke and as her brain slowly shut down she had some startling insights. More ...

Habit Seven: Discipline

Getting up early. Keeping going when you’ve got no motivation. Delaying gratification. Not watching as much television. Keeping things simple. Studying. Forming new habits. Planning ahead. Saying no to perfectly reasonable requests. Drawing scornful comments from others. Doing some hard work. Developing depth, focus, perseverance, concentration and smiley spirituality. The mixed side effects of habit seven. More ...

Moodify 005

How much of your thinking is on the present moment? How much is on the past or the future? Sometimes it is as though our thoughts get captured by something not present and cause us real problems. This awareness exercise gently helps. More ...

Archimedes’ Wife has a Brain Wave

Famous for his “EUREKA!” moment, Archimedes shouldn't really take the credit. His wife, fed up with him hanging around all day, thinking, told him to take a break and have a bath. That was the moment of genius. More ...

April Wishing Exercise: Who’s Done It Before

Given that we’re generally pants at predicting what will make us happy – and – given that wishing is about improving happiness and purpose, a sensible idea is to check out your wishes with someone who’s done it before to see if it made them happy. More ...

Habit Four: Presence

Where are you? Present or somewhere else? If a graph could be drawn showing where your mind was for most of the day how much would be taken up with stuff from the past or things yet to happen – rather than being present? And what would happen if you try to bring your attention to the present moment when you’re on your own, somewhere still and quiet and there are no attention distractions. Have you ever learned to overcome the mental entropy that bombards us in those moments? More ...

How To Make A Meditation Stool

How can you meditate or pray for 20 minutes and not fall asleep? How can you sit comfortably with your back straight to let that meridian chakra energy flow? Read on and make yourself a kneeling stool or seiza bench. More ...

Habit Three: Stillness

The guru of stillness was exasperated with his student. The source of this exasperation was essentially that what he was teaching didn’t exist and the student was having a hard time with that. It was more about what wasn’t there than what was. The student couldn’t really handle that; ‘So. What you’re saying is that it is a bit like this? Or like that?’. ‘No, no, not like that! Or this, for that matter. Even a bit!’ He paused and finding depths of compassion and patience asked his student, ‘Are there spaces between your thoughts?’. ‘Well yes’, the student admitted. ‘Then make them bigger’. More ...

Five Small Seeds To Change The World

Great things come in small packages. The full majesty of the tree is contained in the small seed. The essence of something fully developed is there inside, and much more – the promise of further multiplications of fruit that can come from the single seed that is allowed to die, (as Jesus famously said in reference to his own path.) More ...

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