Category: therapy
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Learning to stay sane around people
After a very peopled few days it is quiet in the temple today. It is lunchtime, and the only other person I have seen waved at me from a top floor window, whilst I was in the garden, before disappearing again. Satya got up at 5:30am this morning and went to a half-day yoga retreat at a…
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the end of stress – how to relax
This morning I was supposed to be giving a talk on how to relax. I had the flowchart of the talk I had prepared earlier in the week in one hand (‘flowchart’ is the grand name I gave my few scribbles on a page) and a cup of tea in the other. I watched as…
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Mindfulness practice is not a magic wand
Mindfulness practice, like psychotherapy, is a long term solution. Mindfulness based programmes have been in this press a lot this year. They make great claims to solve many of the problems we face in our lives. My own mindfulness practice has given me great gifts but the journey is not always a smooth one. The…
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Step one: Relax
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true. ~ Carl R. Rogers Early this morning I was sitting in the garden under grey skies, watching a couple of solitary bees buzzing to and from the bee box I had installed…
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We are all made of stories
How we feel, how we act and who we are in each moment is affected by many different things: how we felt a second ago, what is happening in our bodies, and our immediate surroundings. One of the most powerful things that affect us is the stories we tell about ourselves and the world, consciously…
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Mindfulness and Therapy
People come to therapy for all sorts of reasons. They want to move from stuckness to action, from difficulty to ease, from sorrow to happiness, or they come looking for a more meaningful life. David Brazier, the author of Zen Therapy, once told me that: “If you only learn how to do one thing in…
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Mindfulness and Therapy
People come to therapy for all sorts of reasons. They want to move from stuckness to action, from difficulty to ease, from sorrow to happiness, or they come looking for a more meaningful life. David Brazier, the author of Zen Therapy, once told me that: “If you only learn how to do one thing in…
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The Power of Non-Rejection or Coming to Wholeness
“If I don’t like it, it doesn’t exist.” One of the most common ways of dealing with anything challenging is to pretend that it doesn’t exist. You come home huffing and puffing but claim to be fine when a friend asks you what’s up. Eventually you start to believe that you are fine. The general…
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The power of non-rejection or ‘coming to wholeness’
“If I don’t like it, it doesn’t exist.” One of the most common ways of dealing with anything challenging is to pretend that it doesn’t exist. You come home huffing and puffing but claim to be fine when a friend asks you what’s up. Eventually you start to believe that you are fine. The general…