Who are you concerned about?
Many of us spout the talk of love and compassion. It makes us feel warm and gooey inside, like pictures of cute kittens, but few of us truly practice it—me […]
Category Archives: Life skills
Compassion for those who make you suffer
Don’t waste your life
It doesn’t matter whether you think this is the only life you’ll have, or whether you think you’ll have a succession of them (and already have), or whether you […]
The discipline of Happiness
It’s easy to spiral into depression or to find our lives suddenly stressful and racing along at a clipping pace. It easy to stop it too, but we think it’s […]
A daily inoculation against depression and unhappiness
I wrote a post recently about how to destroy depression with a meditation practice that uses sound and light, but if have ever felt miserable you will know that […]
How to deal with the insidious unsupporter & his big brother the downright negative
This post follows on from the previous one that shows you how to recognise the insidious unsupporter and their games. First it is helpful to understand why someone is an […]
The insidious unsupporter
The insidious unsupporter is a much more dangerous animal than the downright negative. They often wear a disguise and so are harder to spot. If you aren’t aware that they’re […]
Are you missing the point?
What is the point of all this posturing? This defending and promoting your point of view, as if only you know the truth and everyone else must have it wrong […]
Stop
How often do you stop? Really stop? Stop so that your mind is still, stable in the moment without reaching forward to what you’re planning to do next, […]
Be generous to yourself – take time for a retreat
Do you ever give yourself time to focus on your true nature rather than the ego self that usually runs your life? If you practice meditation, then you do, but […]
