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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...
Alistair Appleton
Mar 26, 20243 min read
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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...
Alistair Appleton
May 11, 20238 min read
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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...
Alistair Appleton
Mar 12, 20218 min read
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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...
Alistair Appleton
Oct 24, 20185 min read
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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...
Alistair Appleton
Mar 3, 20166 min read
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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...
Alistair Appleton
Nov 24, 20122 min read
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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...
Alistair Appleton
May 8, 20125 min read
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