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Mar 263 min read

6 Tips for Accessing the Emotions on the Cushion

This is an excerpt from the session on emotions on Monday (25th March 2024) where I give some tips about accessing the second field, the...

May 11, 20238 min read

Victory Mind II: Sleep Is Not Enough

One of the factors that Johann Hari identifies in his excellent book Stolen Focus is the crippling exhaustion that most humans in the...

Mar 12, 20218 min read

Freud

This is a tidied up transcript of an answer I gave in the Live Sessions in February 2021. Tamsyn mentioned her dislike of reading Freud...

Oct 24, 20185 min read

The Morning Dread: Shaking Hands with Anxiety

A horrible year of anxiety completely ruined my sleep cycle. I used to sleep like a log. Like my father in fact, who falls asleep...

Mar 3, 20166 min read

Colouring-in cats is the opium of the people.

I was just down in Cardiff to teach and on Friday evening I gave a talk on mindfulness, exploring what it is and what it definitely...

Nov 24, 20122 min read

The Robin

I was sitting on the edge of the garden, watching the clouds darken then lighten then darken and across the sky, I saw words spelling out...

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...