Guided Meditation – Working Through a Challenge or Question In Our Life

This is a guided meditation pulled from our Sunday meditation class on September 12th. This meditation allows us to bring a difficult challenge, question or problem we have into our meditation practice. Quite often, the thinking mind tries to work its way through our problems and can obscure our natural intuition and creativity. This meditation […]

Working Through a Challenge or Question In Our Life

Notes & Transcript SUNDAY 12 SEPTEMBER – FREE WEEKLY GUIDED MEDITATION – WORKING WITH A CHALLENGE OR QUESTION IN OUR LIFE Good morning, everyone. I hope everyone’s having a lovely weekend. Please let me know if you can hear me okay. Just give me a thumbs up. Good good, thank you. So this morning, the […]

Tong-Len and Loving-Kindness

Notes & Transcript Transcript This morning I’d like to do a meditation that we haven’t, I’m not sure we’ve done it during these sessions, but if you’re familiar with any Tibetan Buddhism practise, you might have heard of this meditation and it’s called Tong-Len and essentially the translation is giving and taking the Tong means […]

Interconnectedness, Self and Other, Loving-Kindness

Notes & Transcript David started by reading a story:  “There was a farmer who grew excellent quality wheat and every season he won the award for the best grown in his county. One year a reporter from the local newspaper interviewed the farmer and learned that each Spring the man shared his seeds with his […]

Guided Meditation – Starting Your Day With Gratitude

This is a guided meditation on gratitude. It is best listened to in the morning, to start your day with a clean slate and an intention to express appreciation for all the things in your life, from the small day-to-day enjoyments to your health, and the bigger challenges that help you grow and make you who you are.

The Beauty of Gratitude

In this episode, David explores the ‘superpower’ that is gratitude. Gratitude is supremely important for our well-being and can really turn our day around and bring a radical shift to our life. It’s very easy for us to get fixated on the things that are wrong: what we don’t have, what we need, what isn’t working, what needs fixing. In the midst of this, we can lose sight of all that we do have, everything that is going well, what is working, what doesn’t need fixing.

The Good Nun and the Patchy Robe

Notes & Transcript Guided Meditation:Mindfulness of Breathing (Focussed on the Nostrils) Transcript:Good morning everyone. Welcome to our Sunday session. Hopefully, we don’t have any tech problems this week. So, this morning, for our meditation I wanted to return to mindfulness of breathing, but do a mode that I don’t do as often, and that is […]

Guided Meditation – Deep Relaxation for Sleep

This is a guided meditation designed to help you unwind and relax your body ready for a good night’s sleep. By bringing awareness into the body and consciously relaxing individual areas of the body, we allow the mind to let go of rambling thoughts and come to settle in a calm, witnessing mode. This soothing meditation will help take you into a deep, restful sleep.

Why Do We Feel The Need To Control Everything?

Notes & Transcript Guided Meditation Mindfulness of Feelings. This satipaṭṭhāna focuses on the contemplation of “feelings” or “feeling tones” (vedanā), which mainly refers to how one perceives feelings as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. TranscriptGood morning everyone. Welcome to our Sunday morning meditation class. Welcome to those of you who come regularly and a special welcome […]

Striving for Perfection

Inspired by a post on social media, in this episode, David talks about the elusive concept of perfection. By always striving for things to be perfect, we place a great deal of pressure on our self, others and the world around us and bring about our own disappointment and frustration with life.

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