Supported By The Earth
Connection with the elements is an ancient practice, influencing many different traditions. In weaving these traditions into my mindfulness practice, I feel like I've woken up to a transformed experience of being a human.
Posts tagged ‘Meditation’
May 23
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Slow Meditation: Releasing The Pressure
There's a lot of buzz about Slow Living at the moment, and it would seem natural to look to meditation to support this. But I'm wondering how many of us fall into practising what I think of as 'fast meditation'. I'm not sure I've totally slowed it down yet, but I've definitely eased a lot of the pressure I'd been inadvertently bringing into my practice.
Reclaiming Our Natural Wellbeing – Part 2
Research on hunter-gatherer people suggest that they are more 'whole-brained', or I might say 'whole-bodied'. People who've lived with and studied the few remaining hunter-gatherer cultures have shared some fascinating insights into a way of life that appears to support better wellbeing than we enjoy in contemporary western culture. So what might happen if we were more connected to our right brain/body?
What Is Mindfulness?
I'm often asked the question 'what is mindfulness?'. I don't believe there is one definitive answer to this question. What you'll find here is just one possible answer, based on the way I have received and share the practices of mindfulness and self-kindness...
Should I Sit Up Or Lie Down To Meditate?
Choosing a posture for meditation is in itself an exercise in being mindful. This is because there are no simple, black-and-white, right or wrong answers in this area.
Sheila Bayliss 