How Falling In Love With Your Monkey Mind Can Be The Key To Inner Peace

Dealing with your monkey mind

One of the common challenges students face, when trying to silently observe their thoughts, as part of a meditation or mindfulness practice, is that their monkey mind plays games. Our thoughts are running in the background, practically all of the time. They’re chattering, passing judgement, analysing, debating, reviewing, … [Read more...]

How Mindfulness Can Give You Back Your Choice

Do you want to discover the magic of mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a way of bring our over-full mind back from wherever it has been camping out, to living in the present moment. It can be an incredibly useful technique for dealing with stress and worries, as well as for deepening your meditation experience. Discover how mindfulness can help you get out of 'auto-pilot' mode and … [Read more...]

Feeling Down? Why Meditation Could Be Just What You Need

How To Meditate When You're Feeling Down

One of the things we do when we're feeling a yucky emotion - whether it's sadness, depression, guilt or anger, is to run from it. We resist it. We fight it. We pretend it's not there. And, as I often hear from meditation students, the last thing we want to do when we're feeling down is to meditate. Who on earth would want to sit … [Read more...]

Are You Eating Yourself Miserable?

Are you eating yourself miserable?

One of the most common reactions when we’re feeling down is to reach for something to eat. Our research showed that up to 75% of people instinctively reach for comfort food, when they’re feel down, stressed or angry. Yet what we’re eating (or drinking) could be making us feel worse. Discover the 5 most common food traps … [Read more...]