Is self-care selfish?
Kathy and I are running a course on self-care at the spa road Buddhist centre next weekend and so our thoughts have been circumambulating...
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Alistair Appleton
Jan 16, 20146 min read
the meaning of loneliness: 1/ what is loneliness, really?
This is a series of essays on a subject that I’m interested in exploring in 2014: loneliness. Last year at Mindsprings we concentrated a...
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Alistair Appleton
May 18, 20132 min read
Happy Wesak
Mindsprings is not a specifically Buddhist organisation but I’d be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge the paramount debt we have to the...
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Alistair Appleton
Jan 21, 20131 min read
GENEROSITY
The Buddha met a woman whose life was made miserable by her compulsive miserliness. He gave her a carrot and taught her to give it from...
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Alistair Appleton
Jan 7, 20131 min read
Sexuality and Spirituality: Are they the same thing?
This was a public lecture Alistair gave to the Norwich Interfaith at the Octagon Chapel, 21st November 2012 on the subject of sexuality...
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Alistair Appleton
Oct 28, 20122 min read
Post Retreat Preachiness
There’s a list of behaviours guaranteed to piss off your friends after you come back from a retreat. Preachiness is probably right at the...
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Alistair Appleton
Aug 6, 20125 min read
Anna on the Summer Retreat at The Abbey
After weeks…and weeks…of rain, I had begun to question the wisdom of running a mindfulness weekend entitled “Sinking into Summer, Sinking...
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Alistair Appleton
May 8, 20125 min read
The bittersaltsweetsour of life: mindfulness, dissociation and tastebuds
This is a reboot of a blog I wrote back in 2012 (which seems like another world) after a weekend retreat at the Abbey in Sutton...
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Alistair Appleton
Mar 17, 20124 min read
Mindfulness vs. Dissociation: now it’s relational
I’m deep in the middle of a research project for my therapy training about the fascinating subject of dissociation and how it impacts our...
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Alistair Appleton
Jan 26, 20124 min read
Patternicity
I’ve been working on the course that I’m giving this week in London – It’s about “poisoned patterns of the mind” and it seems to have...
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Alistair Appleton
Nov 8, 20114 min read
Thoughts are a Planet. The Body is the Sun. Occupy your Being. Join the revolution.
George Monbiot makes an interesting statement in this morning’s Guardian. He points out that there is a myth: that the people at the top...
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Alistair Appleton
Oct 18, 20112 min read
Compassionate Spaces in the body, in the air, in the Other
The course upon Holy Island was truly wonderful this year. It was a great group. There was palpable energy flowing around the Peace Hall,...
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Alistair Appleton
Oct 4, 20112 min read
Getting mindfulness off the cushion and into … well, the bedroom, for example
I’m very excited about the workshops coming up this autumn – they’re all pushing mindfulness in different directions. There’s...
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Alistair Appleton
Sep 26, 20112 min read
Transformational breathing, transforming, and transition
I (Alistair) went to an amazing workshop this weekend with Alan Dolan. Alan is a fellow workshop leader at the Special Yoga Centre. Or at...
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Alistair Appleton
Aug 2, 20112 min read
Forcible Thereness
Back filming for Escape to the Country and enjoying the other headspace that being outside of London and away from psychotherapy books...
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Alistair Appleton
Jun 11, 20113 min read
Clarifying mindfulness
Had a wonderful retreat in the cold, perpetual daylight of Iceland. The lovely Reykjavik sangha organized a fantastic 35-person retreat...
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Alistair Appleton
Feb 5, 20114 min read
Fame: To grow as a tree grows. Presently.
I had the most wonderful afternoon on Friday talking to the young men and women of St. James schools – two independent, sibling schools,...
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Alistair Appleton
Jan 28, 20113 min read
Energywork and Meditation
My therapy work has got me interested in the field of trauma and energy psychology. Working with trauma – highly painful,...
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Alistair Appleton
Nov 16, 20103 min read
The knotty issue of focus
It comes up again and again in our classes, so I thought it might be worth jotting down a few thoughts about focus. Doing this a hundred...
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Alistair Appleton
Oct 4, 20103 min read
Kick-Ass Mindfulness
Earlier this year I took up kickboxing. It was in the middle of a very grim and gloomy February when I was struggling with lots of demons...
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