MINI MEDITATION  There is a lot of hype around mindfulness and related practices these days; as a result, it’s common for many of us to get excited when we are first introduced to them. We arrive at our first formal meditation practice very hopeful, only to find out how hard it can be. Our minds […]

Listening to silence: an excellent way to meditate It is easier than we think but it takes practice and discipline like anything else. If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all-pervasive silence.   Every sound is born out of silence, between noise, between […]

“What a dreadful day!” "We said that once a while without realizing that the cause i.e. weather, event, situation, people, not getting what you want, getting what you don’t or whatever zillion of other external triggers you react against, are usually not…………so dreadful.  They are as they are, whether we like it or not. What […]